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Stephen Hawking: Cosmologist Who Gets a Big Bang Out of the Universe
(Getting to Know the World's Greatest Scientists & Inventors)
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Meet renowned physicist Stephen Hawking!
Getting to Know the World's Greatest Inventors and Scientists series combines a delightful mix of full-color historical reproductions, photos, and hilarious cartoon-style illustrations that bring to life the work and contributions of renowned scientists and inventors, combining poignant anecdotes with important factual information fo ...more
Getting to Know the World's Greatest Inventors and Scientists series combines a delightful mix of full-color historical reproductions, photos, and hilarious cartoon-style illustrations that bring to life the work and contributions of renowned scientists and inventors, combining poignant anecdotes with important factual information fo ...more
Paperback, 32 pages
Published
September 1st 2009
by Scholastic
(first published March 2009)
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Como los números anteriores, esta historia también me ha conmovido, porque te cuentan la vida de alguien célebre de una forma que nunca antes habías oído. Y para alguien que se ha visto la película media decena de veces, un par de documentales larguísimos y leído Breve Historia del Tiempo, este pequeño libro me contó mucho más.
Such great work, unfortunately, it’s an old copy so the writer must make a new copy which includes Hawking’s last days and the day he left us.
Isaac says:
He had ALS. It's a disease that makes you not be able to control your muscles. Stephen Hawkins is famous for his research on black holes. ...more
He had ALS. It's a disease that makes you not be able to control your muscles. Stephen Hawkins is famous for his research on black holes. ...more
Aug 26, 2011
Joey Fong
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This is a children friendly autobiography on Stephen Hawking. He is a renown theoretical physicist and cosmologist. This book discusses the extraordinary life of how Hawking became interested with science through vivid real-life photographs as well as colorful cartoons. It contains a variety of scientific terminologies that students may find beneficial. It is also an inspirational story one how Hawking continue his studies and research while going through a serious disease known as the amyotroph
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A very brief and upbeat intro to Hawking and his work, for young children. Here's my favorite line: "Like any good scientist, Stephen changed his mind about certain things when new and better information came along that disagreed with some of his original theories." Sort of says it all.
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This was an interesting children's book with several neat pictures of Stephen Hawking. the book is far more concerned with Hawking's excentric biography than his science.
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the writing and the photos i enjoyed, not so much the cartoon art.
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