About stephen hawking biography book

The condition has caused him almost total paralysis, confining him to a wheelchair and forcing him to speak through a voice synthesizer activated by his cheek muscle. He has written several successful telefilms, and has a feature horror screenplay in development with a prominent Hollywood producer. He also teaches screenwriting at Cal State Fullerton.

The novelty of it wore off pretty quickly. Nuruddin Azri. Hawking rupa-rupanya tidak berapa senang apabila gambarnya yang menghidap penyakit Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis ALS diletakkan pada kulit bukunya, A Brief History of Time yang dikarang beliau pada usia 40 tahun. Hawking pada asalnya dibesarkan dalam keluarga yang sederhana. Ayahnya merupakan seorang doktor.

Tetapi minat Hawking terhadap matematik dan astronomi membuatkan beliau menceburi dengan lebih mendalam dalam bidang astronomi. Hawking hidup berpindah-randah dari UK ke Amerika Syarikat mengikut ibu bapanya. Beliau mula mendapat simptom dan mengetahui beliau mempunyai penyakit otot pada usia 21 tahun. Apa yang membuatkan Hawking terus kuat meneruskan kehidupan adalah apabila beliau berjumpa pasangan hidupnya yang pertama.

Beliau kemudiaannya dikurniakan dua zuriat yang membuatkan beliau cuba untuk memohon menjadi "fellow" di Oxford dan Cambridge. Banyak penemuan dan kajian yang beliau lakukan sepanjang berada di Oxford dan Cambridge termasuklah menganalisis teori Isaac Newton, teori relativiti Albert Einstein sehinggalah kepada teori Richard Feynman, Max Planck dan Oppenheimer.

Menurut Hawking, teori relativiti Einstein merupakan satu teori umum kewujudan alam manakala teori Big Bang, lohong hitam dan teori kuantum yang Hawking teroka pula merupakan teori spesifik kepada asal-usul kewujudan alam semesta. Perbahasan mengenai masa dan ruang yang boleh dilentur merupakan wacana yang diberi tumpuan oleh Hawking. Penyakit ALS yang dihidapi Hawking pada hakikatnya merupakan satu kes yang terpencil kerana Hawking mampu hidup dalam jangka hayat yang lama.

Penyakitnya bertambah parah sedikit demi sedikit bermula dengan "tracheostomy" yang terpaksa dilakukan akibat beliau sesak nafas dan sering tercekik makanan yang dimakan. Kemudian, "laryngectomy" pula terpaksa dilakukan kerana simptom yang semakin buruk. Pada saat ini, Hawking sangat berterima kasih kepada individu yang mencipta alat yang membolehkan beliau menulis dan bertutur dengan hanya menggunakan otot-otot pada muka.

Maka, minat dan bakat beliau dalam pengkajian dapat diteruskan dan tidaklah terbunuh begitu sahaja. Pada akhir hayat yang memerlukan pantauan pegawai kesihatan inilah, Hawking berkahwin pula dengan jururawat yang menjaga beliau dan dikurniakan seorang anak. Walaupun Hawking menghidap penyakit yang mengehadkan pergerakan beliau, Hawking tetap berpuas hati dengan kehidupannya secara keseluruhan kerana minat beliau dalam pengkajian astronomi tidak terjejas malahan beliau dapat mengembara ke serata dunia sama ada China, Rusia dan Jepun beberapa kali atas kapasiti menyampaikan syarahan berkenaan astronomi yang diminatinya.

Jose Monarrez. I would summarize it as "the love they felt at that moment was true and opted to part away before things soured too much and scarred whatever was left good! Hawking wrote this memoir with "as-a-matter-of-fact" tone. So, it might read a little bit dry. And it's also very brief. I wanted to brush away this "factual" tone thinking Stephen isn't quite a writer.

But then I recalled Stephen has authored so many papers, articles for popular mass media, and wrote a hugely celebrated cult book "A Brief History of Time". Then why this minimalist attitude in writing? Uhh, I do not find much standing out in this memoir. It is too much of a record of what he did at various moments in his life.

He briefly touches various points in his life. It seems he used to see people as "intellectuals or non-intellectuals" within their social circle. In some places he gave away his emotions but only very briefly. For example, when he was diagnosed first with his disability and he met Jane, then how the prospect of starting a life with her inspired him to progress in his work.

Or as his physical condition deteriorated, he thought to himself why did this happen to him. Stephen briefly mentions his not winning a Noble for any of his work. Now, that he has passed away that wouldn't happen anyway! Because he focused on what he could still do with his disability and let go of things that disability didn't allow him anymore Finally, it goes without saying that Stephen had one of the most beautiful minds of our time!

Helga Cohen. My Brief History was a brief memoir by Hawking. It was written not as a long detailed autobiography but a brief history of his life which included pictures which I liked. It includes a little bit about his parents, childhood, education-preparatory school and college, his marriage, children and his career which detailed his areas of interest in astrophysics.

He also detailed a bit about working around his disability. In this book, I found he had a sense of humor and would make bets with peers about cosmology and always paid his bets. He was married twice but always spoke well of his family as he knew how difficult it was for them to take care of him with his disability. This was a good introduction about the life of this brilliant scientist who lived for 56 years with ALS a disability he was only to survive with for a few years.

His passion for science and his ambition to achieve success in spite of his disability makes his life inspiring. It could have been a bit longer but when one realizes that he could only write 3 words a minute every chapter is priceless. More adept biographers can write a longer narrative with much more detail. Farnoosh Noroozi. For me it was a nice read.

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About stephen hawking biography book

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Including some of the legends from various categories of art, science, politics, economics , social work etc. So here's our first hero Dr. Stephen Hawking. One of the rarest legends from the field of science who are eqaully the other celebrities. Basically you can consider this article as more of short insight from the goggles of this book in Hawking's life.

As feel I am not the person who can review or comment on Hawking Sir's work. So the he was born and brought up in Oxford exactly after years after the death of Galileo. So he was the eldest son in his family. And went to special school during childhood as was not abled to learn at the regular pace. He always wanted to know how everything works and then try to control it accordingly.

This hobby brought him into field of science and soon he started his college in Cambridge. During the college days the symptoms for his disease ALS- a motor neuron disease. Causing muscles to be immovable. But as they go unrecognised by the doctors he had to face a serious impact as it was diagnosed later. Rising from the depression from his diagnosis he started to work on science and later developed intrest particularly in cosmology.

He reasearched on singularities later known as black holes and stated it's basic properties. Also worked on black hole thermodynamics and the ration coming from black holes due to rotational energy was named Hawking radiation. He wanted to unify the final theories of albert einstein general theory of relativity for macroscopic universe and Quantum thoery for microscopic universe and purpose a single theory as a whole.

He was open to all the new theories which can unify this some of the theories he worked on were supersymetry, quantum gravity, the string theory , the M- theory. During his life he faced so many struggles due to his disease, accidents, criticism, family issues and what not. He wrote a book as ' a brief history of time' it was a national best seller but hardly , anyone had understood it.

This made him star and a popular scientist. Later he also wrote a book 'universe in a nut shell'.