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How Stephen Hawking became the world’s most famous physicist

10 Jul 2021 Laura Hiscott
Taken from the July 2021 issue of Physics World where it first appeared under the headline "Stephen Hawking: cosmic commodity".

Laura Hiscott reviews Hawking Hawking: the Selling of a Scientific Celebrity by Charles Seife

Stephen Hawking at CERN
Man or myth? Was Stephen Hawking’s public image an accurate portrayal of who he really was, as a physicist and a human being? (© 2006-2020 CERN)
With a title like Hawking Hawking: the Selling of a Scientific Celebrity, science writer Charles Sei

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Laura Hiscott is a freelance science journalist
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