Stephen Hawking: Theoretical Physicist (STEM) (STEM Trailblazer Bios) - Softcover

Cornell, Kari

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1467797170 ISBN 13: 9781467797177

Publisher: Lerner Publishing Group, 2016

Synopsis

Do you like to gaze at the stars? So did the young Stephen Hawking. Eventually, he turned his fascination with the night sky into a career of trying to figure out how the universe began and how it works.

As a child, Hawking loved the stars and he loved math class. In college, he studied physics and cosmology, or how the universe came to be. But then he was diagnosed with amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS), a disease that shuts down the nerves that control muscles. His doctors thought he had two years to live, so Hawking started working hard to meet his goals. He studied black holes and made discoveries that earned him recognition around the world. He wrote several books about the universe to help people understand his ideas. More than fifty years after his diagnosis, Hawking still has ALS, but he continues to ponder the night skies, trying to find one theory that will explain the universe.

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About the Author

Kari Cornell is a freelance writer and editor who lives in South Minneapolis with her husband and two young boys. When she's not working or spending time with her family, she loves to cook, tinker in the garden, knit, or run. She feels fortunate that she's been able to combine many of the activities she likes to do in her free time with her day job. Cornell is the author of several cookbooks for children, including Cooking the Turkish Way and Cooking the Indonesian Way. She is the co-author of Growing with Purpose: Forty Years of Seward Community Cooperative

Edition details

• Publisher: Lerner Publishing Group
• Publication date: 2016
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1467797170
• ISBN 13: 9781467797177
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 32