Please visithttps://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/485741to listen full audiobooks. Title: Hawking Hawking: The Selling of a Scientific Celebrity Author: Charles Seife Narrator: Tom Perkins Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 16 hours 10 minutes Release date: August 10, 2021 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 5 of Total 1 Genres: Astronomy & Physics Publisher's Summary: 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, and wooing billionaires. Confined to a wheelchair and physically dependent on a cadre of devotees, Hawking still managed to captivate the people around him-and use them for his own purposes. A brilliant exposé and powerful biography, Hawking Hawking uncovers the authentic Hawking buried underneath the fake. It is the story of a man whose brilliance in physics was matched by his genius for building his own myth.

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