(全新版)大学英语《综合教程》第一册Unit3.pptVIP

（全新版）大学英语《综合教程》第一册 Unit 3  Understanding Science I. Cultural Notes 1. Stephen Hawking (1942 -): a British scientist who has greatly influenced peoples ideas on the origins of the universe. He has devoted much of his life to probing the space-time described by general relativity and the singularities where it breaks down. And hes done most of his work while confined to a wheelchair, brought on by the progressive neurological disease. Hawking is the Lucasian Professor of Mathematics at Cambridge, a post once held by Isaac Newton. In the late 1960s, Hawking proved that if gene