Stephen Hawking

The image of the great astrophysicist Stephen Hawking has long become a cult, his name is a synonym for genius, and courage, and hope. Once upon a time, the Cambridge student was made a terrible diagnosis - BAS - and promised no more than two years of life. The young man rushed to finish the dissertation - suddenly he would have time. And he managed to: make a huge contribution to the study of the riddles of the universe, become famous throughout the world with popular science books for adults and children, become a hero of game and documentary films, get married twice, get his grandchildren ... In the body of a disabled person, an indomitable creature lived, there was an indomitable creature, On the whole planet, emitted energy, mind, humor and charm.
American writer Kitty Ferguson publishes books for many years and lectures on cosmology for a wide audience. The international fame brought her "talent to translate from the language of physicists into a simple human." She wrote a Hawking biography with approval and with the help of her hero and, in the end, was able to not only recreate his personal history, but also fascinatingly tell about his scientific work aimed at comprehending the very foundations of the Universe