<p>'An ideal introduction [to Stephen Hawking]' - Independent<br>'Astonishingly comprehensive - clearer than Hawking himself' - Focus<br><br>Stephen Hawking was a world-famous physicist with a cameo in The Simpsons on his CV, but outside of his academic field his work was little understood. To the public he was a tragic figure - a brilliant scientist and author of the 9 million-copy-selling A Brief History of Time, and yet spe...