The Prospect Interview #174: The real Stephen Hawking, with Philip Ball
Recognising the humanity of a deified public figure
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A new biography of Stephen Hawking argues that the celebrated scientist was shamelessly self-promoting and his reputation overrated. Philip Ball joins the
Prospect Interview to discuss Charles Seife’s
Hawking Hawking: The Making of a Scientific Celebrity and talks to arts and books editor Sameer Rahim about humanising a scientific deity, and why it was that Hawking, out of all of his other similarly accomplished peers, became a household name.
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