Unit 9 Against All Odds 现代大学英语课件.ppt

LESSON NINE Against All Odds Michael White and John Gribbin Stephen Hawking - a Life in Science (1992) A nonfiction book byJohn Gribbin This biography pays particular attention to Hawkings scientific achievement, as well as to the tragic progress of his illnesses and his extraordinary will to survive and to continue working despite major progressive handicap. Stephen William Hawking Hawking, Stephen William (1942- ), British theoretical physicist and mathematician whose main field of research has been the beginning of the universe, and a unified theory of physics, the