TY - BOOK AU - Gigliotti,Jim AU - Copeland,Gregory TI - Who was Stephen Hawking? T2 - Who was SN - 9780451532480 AV - QC16.H33 G54 2019 U1 - 921 HAWB 23 PY - 2019///] CY - New York PB - Penguin Workshop KW - Hawking, Stephen, KW - Physicists KW - Great Britain KW - Biography KW - Juvenile literature KW - People with physical disabilities KW - sears KW - Physically handicapped KW - Biographies KW - lcgft N1 - Includes bibliographical references (page 106); Who was Stephen Hawking? -- Beginnings -- School days -- Bad news -- Finding a purpose -- New discoveries -- A book for everyone -- Celebrity status -- The human spirit -- Timelines; 6.5; 3-6; 890L; Lexile; X; Fountas N2 - A biography of British physicist Stephen Hawking who spent his entire career trying to answer the question: "Where did the universe come from?" Although he was diagnosed with a neurological disease at age 21, he did not let the illness define his life and continued his research until his death in 2018. He is best known for his black hole theories and his best-selling book "A Brief History of Time" ER -