Stephen Hawking - On Black Holes, Relativity and Time (30 books)
STEPHEN W. HAWKING (1942–2018) was an English theoretical physicist, cosmologist, and author who, at the time of his death, was director of research at the Centre for Theoretical Cosmology at the University of Cambridge.
His scientific works included a collaboration with Roger Penrose on gravitational singularity theorems in the framework of general relativity, and the theoretical prediction that black holes emit radiation, often called Hawking radiation. Initially controversial, by the late 1970s and following the publication of further research, the discovery was widely accepted as a major breakthrough in theoretical physics. Hawking was the first to set out a theory of cosmology explained by a union of the general theory of relativity and quantum mechanics. He was a vigorous supporter of the many-worlds interpretation of quantum mechanics.
Hawking achieved commercial success with several works of popular science in which he discussed his theories and cosmology in general. His book A BRIEF HISTORY OF TIME (1988) appeared on the Sunday Times bestseller list for a record-breaking 237 weeks, and sold more than 25 million copies.
His contributions to physics earned him many exceptional honours. He was made a Commander of the Order of the British Empire (CBE) in 1982 and a Companion of Honour in 1989. He was a Fellow of the Royal Society, a lifetime member of the Pontifical Academy of Sciences, and a recipient of the Presidential Medal of Freedom (2009), the highest civilian award in the United States.
In 2007, Hawking and his daughter Lucy published GEORGE'S SECRET KEY TO THE UNIVERSE (2007), a children's book designed to explain theoretical physics in an accessible fashion and featuring characters similar to those in the Hawking family. It was followed by sequels in 2009, 2011, 2014 and 2016 (Lucy published a fifth sequel in 2019, included here for the sake of George fans).
In addition to the books listed below, I've included 200 academic papers, contributions, and interviews (all PDF).
The following books are in ePUB and/or PDF format as indicated:
== PRIMARY AUTHOR ==
* A Brief History of Time [updated edition] (Bantam, 2017) – ePUB
* Black Holes and Baby Universes & Other Essays (Bantam, 1993) – ePUB
* Black Holes: BBC Reith Lectures (Bantam, 2016) – ePUB
* Brief Answers to the Big Questions (Bantam, 2018) – ePUB + PDF
* Hawking on the Big Bang and Black Holes (World Scientific, 1993) – PDF
* Illustrated Theory of Everything (New Millennium, 2003) – PDF
* My Brief History (Bantam, 2013) – ePUB
* Properties of Expanding Universes (PhD, 1965) – PDF
* Theory of Everything (New Millennium, 2002) – PDF
* Universe in a Nutshell (Bantam, 2001) – PDF
== CO-AUTHOR ==
* A Briefer History of Time [with Mlodinow] (Bantam, 2005) – ePUB
* Future of Spacetime, The [with Thorne et al.] (Norton, 2002) – PDF
* Grand Design [with Mlodinow] (Bantam, 2010) – ePUB + PDF
* Large Scale Structure of Space-Time [with Ellis] (1973) – PDF
* The Large, the Small, and the Human Mind [with Penrose] (1997) – PDF
* Nature of Space and Time [with Penrose] (Princeton, 2010) – ePUB
* Unlocking the Universe [with L. Hawking] (Puffin, 2020) – ePUB
== CHILDREN'S FICTION [with Lucy Hawking] ==
* George and the Big Bang (Simon & Schuster, 2012) – ePUB
* George and the Blue Moon (Simon & Schuster, 2016) – ePUB
* George and the Ship of Time [by L. Hawking] (S&S, 2019) – ePUB
* George and the Unbreakable Code (Simon & Schuster, 2016) – ePUB
* George's Cosmic Treasure Hunt (Simon & Schuster, 2009) – ePUB
* George's Secret Key to the Universe (Simon & Schuster, 2007) – ePUB
== EDITOR ==
* A Stubbornly Persistent Illusion: Essential Einstein (2009) – ePUB + PDF
* Dreams That Stuff Is Made Of (Running Press, 2011) – ePUB + PDF
* Essential Einstein: His Greatest Works (Penguin, 2007) – PDF
* General Relativity: An Einstein Centenary Survey (1979) – PDF
* God Created the Integers (Running Press, 2007) – ePUB + PDF
* On the Shoulders of Giants (Running Press, 2002) – PDF
* Three Hundred Years of Gravitation [ed. with Israel] (1987) – PDF
