Stephen Hawking - A Life In Science: Michael White and John GribbenStephen Hawking was no ordinary scientist. With a career that began over thirty years ago at Cambridge University, he managed to do more than perhaps any other scientist to broaden our basic understanding of the universe. His theoretical work on black holes and his progress in advancing our knowledge of the origin and nature of the cosmos have been groundbreaking, if not downright revolutionary. He spent much of his adult life confined to a