Theoretical Physicist Stephen Hawking

by Kari Cornell

Book Overview

Do you like to gaze at the stars? So did the young Stephen Hawking. Eventually, he turned his fascination with the night sky into a career of trying to figure out how the universe began and how it works.

As a child, Hawking loved the stars and he loved math class. In college, he studied physics and cosmology, or how the universe came to be. But then he was diagnosed with amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS), a disease that shuts down the...

• Format: Library Binding
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1467795283
• ISBN13: 9781467795289
• Release Date: January 2016
• Publisher: Lerner Publications (Tm)
• Length: 32 Pages
• Weight: 0.60 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.3" x 7.0" x 9.1"
• Age Range: 7 to 11 years
• Grade Range: Grades 2 to 6