Stephen Hawking helped us launch this program in 2006; for this year's program see the On the Same Page home page.
About the Authors of A Briefer History of Time
Stephen Hawking
Stephen Hawking was born in Oxford in 1942, exactly 300 years after the death of Galileo. He studied physics at Oxford University and went on to pursue his graduate studies at Cambridge. In his early twenties he was diagnosed as having Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis, known in the UK as Motor Neurone Disease. He holds Newton's chair as Lucasian Professor of Mathematics at Cambridge and is widely considered to be the greatest scientific thinker since Newton and Einstein.
For more information, see Hawking's website.
Leonard Mlodinow
Leonard Mlodinow holds a PhD in theoretical physics from the University of California at Berkeley, and was on the physics faculty of California Institute of Technology, with which he is still affiliated. He has authored numerous publications in academic physics journals as well as in The Los Angeles Times and Discover Magazine. He also wrote the popular science books Euclid's Window: The story of geometry from parallel lines to hyperspace (2001), Feynman's Rainbow: a search for beauty in physics and in life (2003), and The Drunkard's Walk: the story of randomness and its role in our lives (to appear in 2008), and is co-author, with Stephen Hawking, of A Briefer History of Time (2005) and The Grand Design (to appear in 2008), and, with Matt Costello, of the children's book series The Kids of Einstein Elementary. His books appear in 25 languages. In addition, Dr. Mlodinow wrote for network television for many years, including the series MacGyver, and Star Trek: The Next Generation, and wrote the screenplay for Beyond the Horizon, an IMAX film starring Stephen Hawking, currently in production.
