Filter By Subjects
Cosmology Hawking, S. W. (Stephen W.) Hawking, Stephen 1942- Hawking, Stephen 1942-2018 Newton, Isaac 1642-1727 Juvenile literature Physicists Physicists Great Britain Biography Physicists Great Britain Biography Juvenile literature Sir Newton, Isaac 1642-1727 Sir Newton, Isaac 1642-1727 Juvenile literatureFilter By Genres
Audiobooks. bibliography Biographies Biographies. biography Biography. Juvenile works.Filter By Subjects
Cosmology Hawking, S. W. (Stephen W.) Hawking, Stephen 1942- Hawking, Stephen 1942-2018 Newton, Isaac 1642-1727 Juvenile literature Physicists Physicists Great Britain Biography Physicists Great Britain Biography Juvenile literature Sir Newton, Isaac 1642-1727 Sir Newton, Isaac 1642-1727 Juvenile literatureFilter By Genres
Audiobooks. bibliography Biographies Biographies. biography Biography. Juvenile works.Dolnick, Edward
Summary: Presents the true story of a pivotal moment in modern history when a group of strange, tormented geniuses--Isaac Newton chief among them--invented science and remade our understanding of the world.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Harper 2011
Copies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: Science DolnickGigliotti, Jim
Summary: "Learn more about the renowned British scientist, professor, and author who spent his entire career trying to answer the question: "Where did the universe come from?" Stephen Hawking was born exactly three hundred years after the death of the scientist Galileo, so maybe it was written in the stars that he would become a famous scientist in his own right. Although he was diagnosed with a...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Penguin Workshop, an imprint of Penguin Random House 2019
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 921 HAWRussell, Colin Archibald.
Summary: A biography of the nineteenth-century English scientist whose religious beliefs guided his exploration of electricity and magnetism.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Oxford University Press 2000
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 537.09 RUSGleick, James.
Summary: In this biography, Gleick moves between a comprehensive historical portrait and a dramatic focus on Newton's significant letters and unpublished notebooks to illuminate the real importance of his work in physics, in optics, and in calculus.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: HarperCollins Publishers 2003
Copies Available at Fife Lake
1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD 530.092 GLEHawking, S. W. (Stephen W.)
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Bantam Books 1993
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 530.1 HAWBoerst, William J.
Summary: Presents the life and work of the famous seventeenth-century British physicist Sir Isaac Newton.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Morgan Reynolds Pub. 2004
Sorry, no copies available
Place a hold to request this item.Gleick, James.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Pantheon Books 2003
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 530 GLELosure, Mary.
Summary: Before Isaac Newton became the father of physics, an accomplished mathematician, or a leader of the scientific revolution, he was a boy living in an apothecary's house, observing and experimenting, recording his observations of the world in a tiny notebook. As a young genius living in a time before science as we know it existed, Isaac studied the few books he could get his hands on, built...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Candlewick Press 2017
Sorry, no copies available
Place a hold to request this item.Seife, Charles
Summary: "Confined to a wheelchair and surrounded by an entourage of nurses, Stephen Hawking was a symbol of the power of mind over matter. The public adored him, and the media compared him to Newton and Einstein. Appearing at concerts, on The Simpsons, and even on the edge of space, he was an icon who captured the imaginations of audiences all over the world. It didn't seem to matter that his fans had...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Basic Books 2021
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 HAWKING, STEPHEN SEIChristianson, Gale E.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Free Press 1984
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 NEWTON, ISAAC CHRHawking, Jane
Summary: The wife of the reknowned British physicist describes their courtship and marriage, her years caring for his physical needs, his rise to prominence as a scientist and world celebrity, their bitter divorce, and later reconciliation.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Alma Books 2014
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 HAWKING, JANE HAWPascal, Janet B
Summary: Highlights the life and career of the genius physicist, discussing his childhood years, his time at Cambridge, and his landmark book, known as the "Principia."
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Grosset & Dunlap, an imprint of Penguin Group (USA) LLC 2014
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 921 NEWSakurai, Gail.
Summary: A brief biography of the British theoretical physicist who is well-known for his advances in the study of cosmology, accomplished despite being physically limited by amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) or Lou Gehrig's disease.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Children's Press 1996
Copies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Stacks, Call number: JB HAWKING SAKFerguson, Kitty.
Summary: "Stephen Hawking has been an iconic figure in physics for the last half a century, making many groundbreaking discoveries on the nature of the universe. Yet while his mind roams to the farthest corners of reality, his body has become increasingly trappedby the advance of Lou Gehrig's disease, which has bound him to a wheelchair, without speech or movement except for a few facial muscles. Told...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Palgrave Macmillan 2012
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 HAWKING, STEPHEN FERKrull, Kathleen.
Summary: Isaac Newton was not only briiliant, but secretive, vindictive and obsessive. Here is a portrait of the man, contradictions and all, than places him against the backdrop of seventeenth-century England, a time of plague, the Great Fire of London, and two revolutions.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Viking 2006
Copies Available at East Bay
1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 921 NEWMlodinow, Leonard
Summary: "A memoir from the author of SUBLIMINAL and THE DRUNKARD'S WALK revealing his relationship with renowned physicist Stephen Hawking as both a fellow scientist and a friend"--
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Pantheon Books 2020
Sorry, no copies available
Place a hold to request this item.Hawking, Stephen
Summary: The famous physicist details the events of his life and career, including attending Oxford and Cambridge, his ALS diagnosis, his study of black holes, and his penning of the bestselling "A Brief History of Time."
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Random House Inc 2013