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His mother was one of the first female students to have graduated from the oxford university. Stephen hawking was an english theoretical physicist and cosmologist who is recognized to be one of the greatest scientists till date. Lavishly illustrated with rarely seen photographs, this concise, witty and candid account introduces readers to a hawking rarely glimpsed in previous books. Download it once and read it on your kindle device, pc, phones or tablets. My brief history recounts stephen hawkings improbable journey, from his postwar london boyhood to his years of international acclaim and celebrity. Ferguson offers fresh insights into the way hawking thinks and works, his evermoreimaginative.
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