Stephen Hawking is the world-famous physicist with a cameo in The
Simpsons on his CV, but outside his academic field his work is little
understood. To the public he is a tragic figure - a brilliant scientist
and author of the 9 million-copy-selling A Brief History of Time, and
yet confined to a wheelchair and almost completely paralyzed.
Hawking's major contribution to science has been to integrate the two
great theories of 20th-century physics - Einstein's General Theory of
Relativity and Quantum Mechanics. J.P. McEvoy and Oscar Zarate's
brilliant graphic guide explores Hawking's life, the evolution of his
work from his days as a student, and his breathtaking discoveries about
where these fundamental laws break down or overlap, such as on the edge
of a Black Hole or at the origin of the Universe itself.