Ferguson, Kitty

Provides an in-depth biography of disabled British author and physicist Stephen Hawking discussing his childhood, diagnosis of ALS, award-winning work, and rise to international fame. Draws on interviews with Hawking and his colleagues, friends, and family.

Chronicles the lives of sixteenth-century Danish and German astronomers Tycho Brahe and Johannes Kepler and explains how Tycho's inaccurate findings actually helped Kepler develop the three Laws of Planetary Motion, on which modern cosmology is based.

Discusses the formation and possible behavior of black holes and why we believe that they exist.

A portrait of celebrated theoretical physicist Stephen Hawking, discussing his childhood, his battle with Lou Gehrig's disease, his pursuit of a scientific understanding of the universe, and his rise to international fame.

Describes the legacy of Pythagoras, the ancient Greek mathematician and mystic who contemplated the order and symmetry behind musical beauty, discussing Platonists, string theory, and Bertrand Russell.

Chronicles how men and women over the course of two and a half millennia have attempted to measure the universe, looking at the context in which their discoveries were made; and explores how their adventures have changed ideas about the shape and nature of the universe and man's place in it.

Presents the life of the British theoretical physicist who has taken the study of cosmology farther than most in his field, despite the need for a wheelchair and computer in order to travel and communicate.