Films for the Humanities and Sciences - Professor Hawking's Universe

Professor Hawking’s Universe

The Lucasian chair of mathematics at Cambridge University is one of the most prestigious professorships in the world, occupied at one time by Isaac Newton. Its present incumbent is Stephen Hawking, who established his reputation as one of this century’s most brilliant astrophysicists and mathematicians with his discovery that black holes are not necessarily black, and that some of them even shine. Confined by ALS to his wheelchair, his speech understood by only his family and close colleagues, he is working on the greatest problem in modern science—the unification of Quantum Mechanics and General Relativity. This program observes Hawking and his students in their quest for ultimate knowledge. (50 minutes)

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Item#: BVL4139
Copyright date: ©1983


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