Black Holes & Time Warps: Einstein’s Outrageous Legacy
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Won the Phi Beta Kappa Award in Science (1994).
Black Holes & Time Warps: Einstein's Outrageous Legacy provides an illustrated overview of the history and development of black hole theory, from its roots in Newtonian mechanics until the early 1990s.
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- Phi Beta Kappa Award in ScienceWon(1994)
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