Top 3 books recommended by Stephen Hawking

Stephen Hawking was an English theoretical physicist, cosmologist, and author who is widely regarded as one of the most brilliant and influential scientists of all time. He was the Lucasian Professor of Mathematics at the University of Cambridge for thirty years and authored numerous books on physics, cosmology, and mathematics. His work on black holes and the Big Bang Theory revolutionized modern physics and astronomy. He was diagnosed with ALS in 1963 and passed away in 2018.

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The Character of Physical Law
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The Character of Physical Law
  • By: Richard P. Feynman
  • Narrator: Sean Runnette
  • Length: 5 hours 57 minutes
  • Publisher: Blackstone Publishing
  • Publish date: January 01, 2013
  • Language: English
  • (6158 ratings)
(6158 ratings)
In these Messenger Lectures, originally delivered at Cornell University and recorded for television by the BBC, Richard Feynman offers an overview of selected physical laws and gathers their common features into one broad principle of invariance. He... Read more
Just Six Numbers
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Just Six Numbers
  • By: Martin Rees
  • Narrator: Martin Rees
  • Length: 6 hours 47 minutes
  • Publisher: Recorded Books, Inc.
  • Publish date: October 12, 2018
  • Language: English
  • (4423 ratings)
(4423 ratings)
How did a single “genesis event” create billions of galaxies, black holes, stars and planets? How did atoms assemble–here on earth, and perhaps on other worlds–into living beings intricate enough to ponder their origins? What... Read more
The First Three Minutes
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The First Three Minutes
  • By: Steven Weinberg
  • Narrator: Raymond Todd
  • Length: 5 hours 37 minutes
  • Publisher: Hachette Audio
  • Publish date: November 01, 2022
  • Language: English
  • (11400 ratings)
(11400 ratings)
A Nobel Prize-winning physicist explains what happened at the very beginning of the universe, and how we know, in this popular science classic. Our universe has been growing for nearly 14 billion years. But almost everything about it, from the... Read more
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