Hawking: The Man, the Genius, and the Theory of Everything

This is an accessible and fascinating book on the life and work of the remarkable cosmologist Stephen Hawking(1942-2018).After a brief introduction there are 10 illuminating chapters titled: 'Lazy Einstein'; 'A Death Sentence and a Reprieve'; 'The Black Hole Revolution'; 'The Black Hole War'; 'A Brief History of Time'; 'Lonely at the Top'; 'Celebrity Scientist'; 'The Grand Design'; 'On Stage and Screen' & 'Legacy'.The book concludes with a glossary of cosmological terms.Joel Levy's well written and lavishly illustrated biography avoids equations(apart from the entropy equation on Hawking's memorial stone) and is a stimulating introduction to the life and work of an extraordinary scientist.