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April 20, 2009 (Computerworld) The man who is arguably the world's most famous scientist, and who is widely known for trying to help everyday people understand questions like how was the universe formed, is hospitalized with a chest infection.
Stephen Hawking, author of A Brief History of Time and the man many experts consider to be the top theoretical physicist in history, was admitted to Addenbrooke's Hospital, which is part of the University of Cambridge, England, where he is a mathematics professor.
"Stephen Hawking is comfortable," said a spokesman for the university, which is northeast of London. "He's spending the night in the hospital. He has been suffering from a chest infection for the last several weeks."
The spokesman said they would be issuing an update on Hawking's health Tuesday morning.
There has been such a crush of traffic to Hawking's official Web site, that the administrators took its pages offline and replaced it with a brief statement about Hawking's admittance to the hospital.
"Stephen Hawking has become the public face for science, particularly cutting-edge physics," said Dan Olds, an analyst at the Gabriel Consulting Group Inc. "His best-selling book, A Brief History of Time, was written so that average people could understand current theories on the origins of the universe and other pretty complicated questions."
Hawking's book, which was on the British Sunday Times bestseller list for 237 weeks, was first published in 1988. It took on complex questions: How did the universe begin? Will it end? If it does, how will it end? Hawking didn't try to answer the questions for his physics and mathematical colleagues. Instead, he wrote it for the average person who wanted someone to walk him through the expanse of the galaxy, exploring black holes and the idea of alternate dimensions.
The British professor, who was born in Oxford, England, in 1942, is known for his study of cosmology, which focuses on the universe in its totality, along with his work on quantum gravity, which is theoretical physics. He focused a good deal of his work on black holes, predicting that they emit radiation, which is generally known as Hawking radiation.
Hawking suffers from amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS), or Lou Gehrig's Disease. The neuro-degenerative disease is a progressive disorder that causes muscle weakness and atrophy.
April 20, 2009 (Computerworld) The man who is arguably the world's most famous scientist, and who is widely known for trying to help everyday people understand questions like how was the universe formed, is hospitalized with a chest infection.
Stephen Hawking, author of A Brief History of Time and the man many experts consider to be the top theoretical physicist in history, was admitted to Addenbrooke's Hospital, which is part of the University of Cambridge, England, where he is a mathematics professor.
"Stephen Hawking is comfortable," said a spokesman for the university, which is northeast of London. "He's spending the night in the hospital. He has been suffering from a chest infection for the last several weeks."
The spokesman said they would be issuing an update on Hawking's health Tuesday morning.
There has been such a crush of traffic to Hawking's official Web site, that the administrators took its pages offline and replaced it with a brief statement about Hawking's admittance to the hospital.
"Stephen Hawking has become the public face for science, particularly cutting-edge physics," said Dan Olds, an analyst at the Gabriel Consulting Group Inc. "His best-selling book, A Brief History of Time, was written so that average people could understand current theories on the origins of the universe and other pretty complicated questions."
Hawking's book, which was on the British Sunday Times bestseller list for 237 weeks, was first published in 1988. It took on complex questions: How did the universe begin? Will it end? If it does, how will it end? Hawking didn't try to answer the questions for his physics and mathematical colleagues. Instead, he wrote it for the average person who wanted someone to walk him through the expanse of the galaxy, exploring black holes and the idea of alternate dimensions.
The British professor, who was born in Oxford, England, in 1942, is known for his study of cosmology, which focuses on the universe in its totality, along with his work on quantum gravity, which is theoretical physics. He focused a good deal of his work on black holes, predicting that they emit radiation, which is generally known as Hawking radiation.
Hawking suffers from amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS), or Lou Gehrig's Disease. The neuro-degenerative disease is a progressive disorder that causes muscle weakness and atrophy.
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Date: 2009-04-21 10:50 am (UTC)мой сын только что взахлеб прочел книгу Хопкинса, написанную для детей.
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Date: 2009-04-21 12:12 pm (UTC)Хокинг, Стивен Уильям(англ. Stephen William Hawking, род. 8 января 1942, Оксфорд, Великобритания) — один из наиболее влиятельных в научном смысле и известных широкой общественности физиков-теоретиков нашего времени.
Биография
Стефен Хокинг родился в 1942 году. В 1962 году он закончил Оксфордский университет и начал занятия теоретической физикой. Тогда же у Хокинга стали проявляться признаки бокового амиотрофического склероза, которые привели к параличу. В 1965 году женился на Джейн Уайлд, позднее у них родились дочь и два сына. В 1974 году Хокинг стал членом Лондонского Королевского общества. После операции на горле в 1985 году он потерял способность говорить. Друзья подарили ему синтезатор речи, который был установлен на его кресле-коляске и с помощью которого Хокинг может общаться с людьми. Сейчас он занимает должность Лукасовского профессора математики в Кембриджском университете, должность, которую три столетия назад занимал Исаак Ньютон. Несмотря на тяжёлую болезнь, он ведёт активную жизнь. В январе 2007 года он совершил полёт в невесомости (на специальном самолете), а на 2009 год запланирован полёт в космос[1]. Кроме того, Хокинг несколько раз появлялся в мультсериалах «Симпсоны», «Гриффины» и «Футурама», где озвучивал сам себя, и в сериале «Звёздный путь: Следующее поколение» (6-й сезон, 26-я серия).
Научная деятельность
Основная область исследований Хокинга — космология и квантовая гравитация. Его главные достижения:
применение термодинамики к описанию чёрных дыр.
разработка теории о том, что чёрные дыры «испаряются» за счёт явления, получившего название излучение Хокинга.
21 июля 2004 года Хокинг представил доклад, в котором представлена его точка зрения на разрешение парадокса об исчезновении информации в чёрной дыре.
Популяризация науки
Хокинг активно занимается популяризацией науки. В апреле 1988 года вышла книга «Краткая история времени», которая стала бестселлером. Благодаря этой книге Хокинг стал знаменит на весь мир. В предисловии он писал:
Мне сказали, что каждая включённая в книгу формула вдвое уменьшит число покупателей. Тогда я решил вообще обходиться без формул. Правда, в конце я все-таки написал одно уравнение — знаменитое уравнение Эйнштейна E=mc².
Потом появились книги «Чёрные дыры и молодые вселенные» (1993) и «Мир в ореховой скорлупке» (2001). В 2005 году вышло новое издание «Краткой истории…» — «Кратчайшая история времени», написанное в соавторстве с Леонардом Млодиновым.
В 2006 году совместно с дочерью Люси Хокинг написал книгу для детей «Джордж и тайны вселенной».
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Date: 2009-04-21 12:56 pm (UTC)