Hawking

See also: hawking

English

Stephen Hawking

Proper noun

Hawking

1. , variant of Hawkins.

Usage notes

• The surname of the theoretical physicist Stephen Hawking is used attributively in the name of various theories and results in physics.

Derived terms

• Gibbons-Hawking-York boundary term
• Hartle-Hawking state
• Hawking energy
• Hawking mass
• Hawking radiation
• Hawking's paradox
• Hawking's theorem
• Hawking-Zel'dovich radiation
• Thorne-Hawking-Preskill bet

 

Translations

surname

• Chinese:

  Cantonese: 霍金 (fok³ gam¹)

  Mandarin: 霍金 (zh) (Huòjīn)

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• Czech: Hawking m anim
• Hebrew: הוקינג
• Russian: Хокинг (ru) m or f (Xoking)

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Czech

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ˈɦoːkɪŋk]
• Rhymes: -kɪŋk
• Hyphenation: Haw‧king

Proper noun

Hawking m anim

1. Hawking, a surname, most notably applying to the British astrophysicist Stephen Hawking.
   • 1989, Jiří Grygar, Vladimír Železný, Okna vesmíru dokořán, Praha: Naše vojsko, →ISBN, page 144:

     Hawking se však domnívá, že ve vesmiru mohou být i miniaturní černé díry a tam by byl proces vypařování naopak velmi intenzívní.

     However, Hawking believes that there can be also miniature black holes in the universe and their evaporation process would be, by contrast, very intense.

Derived terms

• Hawkingův
• Hawkingovo záření