Hawking's master's thesis link?

In summary, the conversation discusses the availability and access to Stephen Hawking's master thesis on the big bang theory. While there is a link to his PhD thesis "Properties of Expanding Universes" available, there is also a discussion about his other notable papers and their availability. The conversation also mentions the recent release of Hawking's PhD thesis online, with a link to the repository and a discussion about the quality of the scan. Finally, there is a mention of the complexity of Hawking's work and the difficulty in understanding it without a strong background in math and science.
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Charlie Daubitz
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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.
 
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It seems that he made it for free before two days from now!.
 
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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I don't understand, why they don't make this historical document open access.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.
 
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Indeed Hawking did some scientific work to become famous ;-)).
 
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Related to Hawking's master's thesis link?

1. What is "Hawking's master's thesis link"?

"Hawking's master's thesis link" refers to the digital version of Stephen Hawking's master's thesis, "Properties of Expanding Universes", which was made available online in October 2017 by the University of Cambridge.

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"Hawking's master's thesis link" is significant because it was the first time that Hawking's original thesis from 1966 was made available to the public. It offers insights into Hawking's early work and his groundbreaking theories about the nature of the universe.

3. How can I access "Hawking's master's thesis link"?

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5. What are some of the key ideas discussed in "Hawking's master's thesis link"?

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