Where Can I Find Hawking's Master's Thesis?

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The discussion centers around locating Stephen Hawking's master's thesis, with participants exploring whether he has a master's degree or if they are referring to his PhD thesis. The conversation touches on the accessibility of his academic work and the content of his thesis.

Discussion Character

  • Exploratory, Debate/contested, Meta-discussion

Main Points Raised

  • One participant requests a link to Hawking's master's thesis on the big bang.
  • Another participant clarifies that Hawking does not have a master's degree and suggests that the inquiry may be about his PhD thesis titled "Properties of Expanding Universes."
  • Links to various works by Hawking, including his PhD thesis and other significant papers, are provided by participants.
  • A participant mentions a claim made by Hawking regarding his thesis contributing to the acceptance of the big bang theory.
  • Concerns are raised about the quality of the scanned version of the thesis and the lack of open access to such historical documents.
  • One participant expresses difficulty in understanding the mathematical content of Hawking's work.
  • A light-hearted comment is made about Hawking's scientific contributions leading to his fame.

Areas of Agreement / Disagreement

Participants do not reach a consensus on the existence of a master's thesis, with some asserting that only a PhD thesis exists. The discussion remains unresolved regarding the accessibility and quality of the documents mentioned.

Contextual Notes

There is uncertainty regarding the definitions of academic degrees and the specific content of Hawking's thesis. The discussion reflects varying levels of familiarity with the mathematical aspects of his work.

Who May Find This Useful

Readers interested in Stephen Hawking's academic contributions, the history of cosmology, or the accessibility of historical scientific documents may find this discussion relevant.

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Anyone have a link to Hawking's master thesis on the big bang?
 
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stephen_Hawking doesn't list a master's degree.
Are you referring to his PhD thesis? "Properties of Expanding Universes"
https://www.worldcat.org/title/properties-of-expanding-universes/oclc/62793673
http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.601153

Here's a link to his 1966 Adams essay "Singularities and the geometry of spacetime"
http://epjap.epj.org/images/stories/news/2014/10.1140--epjh--e2014-50013-6.pdf

You can also look at some of his papers that placed in the top 5... start at 1965, then 1966, ...
http://www.gravityresearchfoundation.org/winners_year.html#65
 
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I was watching tv and he made the claim of doing his thesis on the big bang theory and causing it to be accepted. I just wanted to try to read it.
 
It seems that he made it for free before two days from now!.
 
The scan is very disappointing in quality. If I find the time, I'll run it through scantailor. The link is

https://www.cam.ac.uk/research/news...-as-his-phd-thesis-goes-online-for-first-time

The pdf version is here:

https://www.repository.cam.ac.uk/handle/1810/251038

The "high-resolution link" is of better quality but for view in the web browser only. It's unusable for me, because I need to print a document of such technical content to understand it.

I don't understand, why they don't make this historical document open access. PhD theses are anyway publicly available in university libraries (at least in Germany). So why not in electronic form?
 
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Thank you, I took a look. His math is miles over me. The pages I looked at were all math. I will read more but if it's all math I'm lost.
 
Indeed Hawking did some scientific work to become famous ;-)).
 
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