Booklet from the 2017 BBVA Fronteras del Conocimiento Award recipients with biographies of past recipients including Hawking

Booklet from the 2017 BBVA Fronteras del Conocimiento Award recipients with biographies of past recipients including Hawking Booklet from the 2017 BBVA Fronteras del Conocimiento Award recipients with biographies of past recipients including Hawking Booklet from the 2017 BBVA Fronteras del Conocimiento Award recipients with biographies of past recipients including Hawking Booklet from the 2017 BBVA Fronteras del Conocimiento Award recipients with biographies of past recipients including Hawking Booklet from the 2017 BBVA Fronteras del Conocimiento Award recipients with biographies of past recipients including Hawking Booklet from the 2017 BBVA Fronteras del Conocimiento Award recipients with biographies of past recipients including Hawking

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BBVA Foundation frontiers of knowledge awards 9th edition, Fundacion BBVA. With foundation director's card taped to page, dated 17/7/2017.

Stephen Hawking received one of the 2016 awards, which is in his office. This booklet dates from next years' edition of the awards, and in addition to biographies of Hawking and the other past awardees, it also has a good description of the artwork itself and its makers.

Stephen Hawking's office contained more than 300 books, all located on the bookshelves above the kitchen counter. They date as early as his student years, and the bulk corresponds to his long professional career from the 1960s to the 2010s. From the 1990s onwards Stephen would have used digital versions increasingly, so the books in his bookcases were a select subset. While some items are rare copies -like the dissertations he advised or book drafts- most of the library contents are rather standard prints. The majority contain significant individual marks, and even for those that do not, the connection to Hawking is evident. Books by friends and colleagues often contain inscriptions and inserts that evidence their relationship. Others remind of places he visited, conferences he attended, or relate to having become a celebrity and inspiration throughout the world. Of the books that he authored, there are usually multiple versions, translations, and occasionally draft versions. A good portion of the books also contain inserts such as notes by the authors or editors, receipts, and occasionally unrelated material that found its way into them around the time of their acquisition. A portion of them has also been bookmarked with post-its by Stephen's assistants pointing to the sections most relevant to show visitors.

Details

Category:
Stephen Hawking Office
Collection:
Stephen Hawking’s Office
Object Number:
2021-561/263
Materials:
paper (fibre product)
Measurements:
overall: 290 mm x 237 mm x 11 mm, .675 kg
type:
publications
credit:
Accepted in lieu of Inheritance Tax by H M Government from the Estate of Stephen Hawking and allocated to the Science Museum, 2021