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Hawking Hawking: the Selling Of a Scientific Celebrity
[Hardback - 2021]
charles seife
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Publisher: Basic Books Usa | ISBN: 9781541618374 | Pages: 400
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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-promotionWhen Stephen Hawking died, he was widely recognized as the world s best physicist, and even its smartest person. He was neither. In Hawking 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 exposé and powerful biography, Hawking 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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