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Notes

Quotations without sources are from interviews with the author.

1. The Day Galileo Died

1.  

S. W. Hawking, A Short History (privately produced pamphlet).

2.  

Michael Church, “Games with the cosmos.” Independent (June 6, 1988).

3.  

Hawking, A Short History.

4.  

Church, “Games with the cosmos.”

5.  

Albanian, May 1958.

3. Going Up

1.  

Hawking, A Short History.

2.  

Ibid.

4. Doctors and Doctorates

1.  

Hawking, A Short History.

2.  

Tony Osman, “A master of the Universe.” Sunday Times Magazine (June 19, 1988).

3.  

S. W. Hawking, My Experience with ALS (privately produced pamphlet).

4.  

Ibid.

5.  

Ibid.

6.  

Ibid.

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7.  

Ibid.

8.  

Ibid.

9.  

Bryan Appleyard, “Master of the Universe: Will Stephen Hawking live to find the secret?” Express News, San Antonio, Texas (July 3, 1988).

10.  

Dennis Overbye, “The wizard of space and time.” Omni (February 1979): 45-107.

11.  

Hawking, A Short History.

6. Marriage and Fellowship

1.  

Hawking, A Short History.

2.  

Ibid.

3.  

John Boslough, Beyond the Black Hole: Stephen Hawking’s Universe. London: Fontana, 1985.

4.  

Appleyard, “Master of the Universe.”

5.  

Bob Sipehen, “The sky’s no limit in the career of Stephen Hawking.” West Australian (June 16, 1990).

6.  

20/20, ABC Television broadcast, 1989.

7.  

Ellen Walton, “A brief history of hard times.” Guardian (August 9, 1989).

8.  

Overbye, “The wizard of space and time.”

9.  

Michael Harwood, “The Universe and Dr. Hawking.” New York Times Magazine (January 23, 1983).

10.  

Dennis Overbye, Lonely Hearts of the Cosmos. Boston: Little, Brown, 1999.

8. The Breakthrough Years

1.  

Jerry Adler, Gerald C. Lubenow, and Maggie Malone, “Reading God’s mind.” Newsweek (June 13, 1988).

2.  

Stephen Hawking, A Brief History of Time. London: Bantam, 1988.

3.  

Overbye, Lonely Hearts of the Cosmos.

4.  

Ibid.

5.  

Ian Ridpath, “Black hole explorer.” New Scientist (May 4, 1978):307.

6.  

Boslough, Beyond the Black Hole, p. 25.

7.  

Timothy Ferris, “Mind over matter.” Vanity Fair (June 1984).

8.  

Overbye, Lonely Hearts.

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9. When Black Holes Explode

1.  

S. W. Hawking, B. Carter, and J. Bardeen, Communications in Mathematical Physics, 31(1973):161-170.

2.  

Hawking, A Brief History of Time, p. 105.

3.  

S. W. Hawking, Scientific American (January 1977):34-40.

4.  

S. W. Hawking, Nature, 248(1974):30-31.

5.  

J. Taylor and P. Davies, Nature, 250(1974):37-38.

10. The Foothills of Fame

1.  

Hawking, My Experience with ALS.

2.  

Overbye, Lonely Hearts.

3.  

Ibid.

4.  

Alan Lightman and Roberta Brawer, Origins: The Lives and Worlds of Modern Cosmologists. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard, 1990, p. 406.

5.  

Harwood, “The Universe and Dr. Hawking.”

6.  

Overbye, Lonely Hearts.

7.  

Appleyard, “Master of the Universe.”

8.  

Ferris, “Mind over matter.”

9.  

Boslough, Beyond the Black Hole, p. 25.

10.  

Ferris, “Mind over matter.”

11.  

Walton, “A brief history of hard times.”

12.  

Ibid.

13.  

Master of the Universe.

14.  

Walton, “A brief history of hard times.”

15.  

Master of the Universe.

16.  

Ibid.

17.  

Ibid.

18.  

Ibid.

19.  

20/20, ABC Television broadcast.

20.  

Harwood, “The Universe and Dr. Hawking.”

21.  

Hawking, A Brief History of Time.

22.  

Appleyard, “Master of the Universe.”

23.  

Jeremy Hornsby and Ian Ridpath, “Mind over matter.” Sunday Telegraph Magazine (October 28, 1979).

24.  

Kitty Ferguson, Stephen Hawking: A Quest for the Theory of Everything. New York: Bantam, 1992.

25.  

Hawking, A Brief History of Time.

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26.  

D. Page, “Hawking’s timely story.” Nature, 333(1988):742-743.

27.  

Hawking, A Brief History of Time.

28.  

Ibid.

29.  

Appleyard, “Master of the Universe.”

30.  

Overbye, Lonely Hearts.

31.  

Ibid.

11. Back to the Beginning

1.  

Hawking, A Brief History of Time, pp. 140-141.

12. Science Celebrity

1.  

Cambridge Evening News (January 31, 1978).

2.  

Boslough, Beyond the Black Hole, p. 28.

3.  

Harwood, “The Universe and Dr. Hawking.”

4.  

Ibid.

5.  

Overbye, “The wizard of space and time.”

6.  

Shames, “Stephen Hawking: A thinking kind of hero.” 1988.

7.  

Sunday Telegraph Magazine.

8.  

Osman, “A master of the Universe.”

9.  

Colin Wills, “Triumph of mind over matter.” Sunday Mirror (September 4, 1988).

10.  

“The sky’s no limit in the career of Stephen Hawking.” West Australian (1989).

11.  

Ferris, “Mind over matter.”

12.  

Overbye, Lonely Hearts.

13.  

Ibid.

14.  

Shames, “Stephen Hawking: A thinking kind of hero.”

15.  

John Gribbin, In Search of the Big Bang. New York: Penguin, 1999, pp. 387-388.

13. When the Universe Has Babies

1.  

E. Fahri and A. Guth, Physics Letters, 183B(1987):149-153.

2.  

Hawking, A Brief History of Time, p. 137.

14. A Brief History of Time

1.  

“Book news.” Bookseller, October 21, 1988.

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2.  

Ibid.

3.  

Boslough, Beyond the Black Hole, p. 26.

4.  

Ibid., p. 27.

5.  

Leonore Fleischer, “Talk of the trade.” Publishers Weekly (January 15, 1985).

6.  

Walton, “A brief history of hard times.”

7.  

“Top city scientist taken to hospital.” Cambridge Evening News (August 17, 1985).

8.  

Walton, “A brief history of hard times.”

9.  

Ibid.

10.  

Ferguson, Stephen Hawking: A Quest for the Theory of Everything.

11.  

“Book news.” Bookseller (October 21, 1988).

12.  

Ibid.

13.  

Ibid.

14.  

Ibid.

15.  

Charles Oulton, “Cosmic writer shames book world.” Sunday Times (August 1988).

16.  

Ibid.

17.  

“Book news.” Bookseller.

18.  

Denise Housby, Cambridge Evening News (August 30, 1988).

19.  

John Maddox, “The big bang book.” Nature, 335(1988):267.

20.  

Simon Jenkins, “A dance to the music of imaginary time.” Sunday Times (August 28, 1988).

21.  

Maddox, “The Big Bang book.”

22.  

“Up and down the city road.” Independent Magazine (April 27, 1991).

23.  

Letters page, Independent Magazine (May 4, 1991).

24.  

Ibid.

25.  

Jenkins, “A dance to the music of imaginary time.”

15. The End of Physics?

1.  

Stephen Hawking, Newsweek (June 13, 1988).

2.  

M. Green, Scientific American (September 1986):44-49.

16. Hollywood, Fame, and Fortune

1.  

Tim Verney, “Top cash prize for brilliant city academic.” Cambridge Evening News (January 21, 1988).

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2.  

Alan Kersey, “Musical tribute to brave professor.” Cambridge Evening News (June 1989).

3.  

Hawking, A Brief History of Time.

4.  

David Gritten, “A brief movie of time.” Sunday Correspondent (1990).

5.  

Ibid.

6.  

James Delingpole, “Limelight.” Evening Standard (June 27, 1990).

7.  

Nigel Hawkes, “Defying the gravity of physics.” The Times (October 27, 1990).

8.  

Pauline Hunt, “Glittering triumph of an inspiring family.” Cambridge Evening News (July 19, 1988).

9.  

Osman, “A master of the Universe.”

10.  

Master of the Universe.

11.  

Ibid.

17. A Brief History of Time Travel

1.  

John Gribbin, In Search of the Edge of Time. New York: Penguin, 1999.

2.  

Kip Thorne, Black Holes and Time Warps. New York: Norton, 1994.

3.  

See also John and Mary Gribbin, Richard Feynman: A Life in Science. London: Viking, 1997.

4.  

Stephen Hawking, The Illustrated Brief History of Time, London: Bantam, 1996. This is much more than its title implies, being in effect a completely new book, which is much more accessible than the original.

5.  

Kip Thorne, note 2, p. 521.

18. Stephen Hawking: Superstar

1.  

Robert Crampton, “Intelligence Test.” The Times Magazine (April 8, 1995).

2.  

John Turney, The Guardian (November 10, 2001).

3.  

Evening Standard (April 2, 1993).

4.  

The Times (March 7, 1994).

5.  

Ibid. (April 21, 1994).

6.  

Express (July 1, 1994).

7.  

Sun (March 30, 1993).

8.  

Nigel Hawkes, The Times (July 3, 1992).

9.  

Robin Mckie, The Observer (October 21, 2001).

10.  

Bryan Appleyard, “Master of a Narrow Universe.” Independent (October 13, 1993).

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11.  

Reuters, Toronto Star (September 30, 2001).

12.  

Robert Crampton, “Intelligence Test.” The Times Magazine (April 8, 1995).

13.  

Radio Times (February 1996).

14.  

Ben MacIntyre, “Hawking Backs Gore as Leader for 21st Century.” The Times (August 10, 2000).

15.  

Guardian (March 27, 1997).

16.  

Daily Mail (July 6, 1995).

17.  

Evening Standard (September 16, 1995).

18.  

Daily Express (October 30, 1995).

19.  

Evening Standard (September 16, 1995).

20.  

20/20, ABC Television broadcast.

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