Description
In All About Stephen Hawking, 2nd Edition, young readers will learn the life of Stephen Hawking. As an Oxford student, he never expected that people across the world would know his name, or that his hobby of stargazing would lead him to be one of the world’s greatest scientists. Stephen Hawking made cosmology, or the study of the universe, accessible to everyone.
He was diagnosed with amyotrophic lateral sclerosis at the age of twenty-one, but didn’t let that stop him from receiving a graduate degree from Cambridge and going on to be an expert in the scientific origin of the universe and black holes.
Hawking is best known for writing A Brief History of Time, which explained cosmology in non-scientific terms so that non-scientists could understand it.
About the Author
Chris Edwards, EdD teaches history and English at a public high school in Indiana. He is the author of numerous books with Rowman & Littlefield Education and Blue River Press. He is also a frequent contributor to Skeptic magazine and has had his original connect-the-dots teaching method published by the National Council for Social Studies.
