ID 370032
Lot 43 | Hawking and the equations
Estimate value
£ 2 000 – 3 000
Stephen Hawking. 1 March 1983.
355 x 278mm. Colour portrait photograph, Kodak processing stamp on verso with date May 1983. Provenance: the estate of Professor Stephen Hawking.
Hawking and the equations. The equations on the blackboard behind Hawking relate to a special unitary group of degree 3 and the standard model of particle physics. 1983 was the year in which Hawking first approached Simon Mitton of Cambridge University Press with the idea for what was to become A Brief History of Time; his theoretical work during this year included the proposition (with Jim Hartle) of the Hartle-Hawking state concerning the very early state of the universe.
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