Hawking Hawking: The Selling of a Scientific Celebrity

When Stephen Hawking died, he was widely recognized as the world's best physicist, and even its smartest person.



He was neither.



In Hawking Hawking, science journalist Charles Seife explores how Stephen Hawking came to be thought of as humanity's greatest genius. Hawking spent his career grappling with deep questions in physics, but his renown didn't rest on his science. He was a master of self-promotion, hosting parties for time travelers, declaring victory over problems he had not solved, a...