Educator Guide: Stephen Hawking’s Legacy Will Live On

During a career that spanned more than half a century, Stephen Hawking deduced new properties of mysterious chasms in spacetime.
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About this guide
The article “Stephen Hawking’s legacy will live on” gives a brief overview of the scientific work of Stephen Hawking, a famous physicist who died on March 14, 2018. Students can focus on information reported in the article, follow connections to earlier articles about Hawking’s work and pursue cross-curricular connections in physics, biology and engineering. In a related activity, students can work individually or in small groups to derive equations and calculate a theoretical amount of Hawking radiation emitted by a black hole.
This Guide Includes:
A life revisited
Mind over body
Escaping from a black hole
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