Hawking Hawking: The Selling of a Scientific Celebrity

by Charles Seife

Book Overview

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 Hawking, science journalist Charles Seife explores how Stephen Hawking came to be thought of as humanity's greatest genius...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1541618378
• ISBN13: 9781541618374
• Release Date: April 2021
• Publisher: Basic Books
• Length: 400 Pages
• Weight: 1.50 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.5" x 5.9" x 9.4"