January 8 is reserved to Stephen Hawking

January 8 is reserved to Stephen Hawking
This weekend marks the 75th birthday of renowned physicist Stephen Hawking. Considered to be one of the most popular scientists of all-time (after Albert Einstein), Hawking’s contributions to the understanding of gravity parallel none other than perhaps Einstein and Roger Penrose. Sir Martin Rees, Royal Astronomer, wrote of Hawking: “His most remarkable single discovery, black‐hole evaporation, came in 1974. But that was itself just the impetus for a crescendo of achievement that continues to this day.”

Hawking in A Brief History of Time has ably traversed the barrier between complex scientific theories and public engagement with a range of subjects within cosmology. The Big Bang, black holes, light cones, space, and time had all long held the public’s attention through the advent of science-fiction writing and movies, but with this book the science behind each theory was made accessible to non-specialists.

Bio:
http://www.oxfordreference.com/view/10.1093/acref/9780192800862.001.0001/acref-9780192800862-e-646

Article:
https://www.theguardian.com/science/audio/2017/jan/08/stephen-hawking-at-75-a-brief-history-science-weekly-podcast

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