TITLE: STEPHEN HAWKING: A LIFE IN SCIENCE
AUTHORS: MICHAEL WHITE AND JOHN GRIBBIN
PUBLISHER: DUTTON; 304 PAGES; $23
THE BOTTOM LINE: He is bound to a wheelchair, but his mind explores the universe.
He is almost totally paralyzed, speechless and wheelchair-bound, able to move only his facial muscles and two fingers on his left hand. He cannot dress or feed himself, and he needs round-the-clock nursing care. He can communicate only through a voice synthesizer, which he operates by laboriously tapping out words on the computer attached to his motorized chair. Yet at age 50, despite these crushing adversities, Stephen Hawking...
To continue reading:
or
Log-In
