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In search of the real Stephen Hawking

28 Nov 2013 Margaret Harris
Taken from the December 2013 issue of Physics World

My Brief History: a Memoir
Stephen Hawking
2013 Bantam Press £12.99hb 144pp

Hawking Incorporated: Stephen Hawking and the Anthropology of the Knowing Subject
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2012 University of Chicago Press $31.00pb 272pp

Photo of Stephen Hawking experiencing weightlessness on a modified Boeing 727
Freefall flight: Stephen Hawking experiencing weightlessness on a modified Boeing 727 jet owned by the Zero Gravity Corporation. (Courtesy: NASA/Science Photo Library)
Stephen Hawking is famous for three reasons. The first is his reputation as a cosmologist. Back in t

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