Hawking Hawking: The Selling of a Scientific Celebrity, Hardcover Book, By: Charles Seife
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Hawking Hawking: The Selling of a Scientific Celebrity, Hardcover Book, By: Charles Seife
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About the Author:
Charles Seife is a professor of journalism at NYU's Arthur L. Carter Journalism Institute and has been writing about science and mathematics for nearly three decades. The author of numerous books, including the bestselling Zero, he lives in New York City.Stephen Hawking was widely recognized as the world's best physicist and even the most brilliant man alive-but what if his true talent was self-promotion? When Stephen Hawking died, he was widely recognized as the world's best physicist, and even its smartest person. He was neither.
In Hawking, science journalist Charles Seife explores how Stephen Hawking came to be thought of as humanity's greatest genius. Hawking spent his career grappling with deep questions in physics, but his renown didn't rest on his science. He was a master of self-promotion, hosting parties for time travelers, declaring victory over problems he had not solved, and wooing billionaires. In a wheelchair and physically dependent on a cadre of devotees, Hawking still managed to captivate the people around him--and use them for his own purposes. A brilliant expose and powerful biography, Hawking uncovers the authentic Hawking buried underneath the fake. It is the story of a man whose brilliance in physics was matched by his genius for building his own myth
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- Books Author: Charles Seife
- Number Of Pages: 400
- Language: English
- Publisher: Basic Books
- Books Category: Science & Math
- Book Format: Hardcover
- Books_ISBN: 1541618378
- Other Feature 2: Weight: 612 grams
- Other Feature 3: Size: 150 x 239 x 38 mm
- Publication Date: April 06, 2021