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{{short description|2001 Stephen Hawking's book}}
{{Infobox book 
| name          = The Universe in a Nutshell
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| image         = Cover Universe in a nutshell.jpg
| caption = First edition cover (UK)
| author        = [[Stephen Hawking]]
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| country       = United Kingdom
| language      = English
| series        = 
| subject       = [[Theoretical Physics]]
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| publisher     = [[Bantam Spectra]]
| release_date  = 2001
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| pages         = 224
| isbn =  0-553-80202-X
| dewey= 530.12 21
| congress= QC174.12 .H39 2001
| oclc= 46959876
| preceded_by   = [[Black Holes and Baby Universes and Other Essays]]
| followed_by   = [[On The Shoulders of Giants (book)|On The Shoulders of Giants]]
}}

'''''The Universe in a Nutshell''''' is a 2001 book about [[theoretical physics]] by [[Stephen Hawking]].<ref>{{cite web|title=The Universe in a Nutshell by Stephen Hawking|url=https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/2095.The_Universe_in_a_Nutshell|website=[[Goodreads]]|publisher=goodreads.com|access-date=14 March 2018}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|title=The Universe in a Nutshell By STEPHEN HAWKING|url=https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/77020/the-universe-in-a-nutshell-by-stephen-hawking/9780553802023/|website=[[Penguin Random House]]|publisher=penguinrandomhouse.com|access-date=14 March 2018}}</ref> It is generally considered a sequel and was created to update the public concerning developments since the multi-million-copy bestseller ''[[A Brief History of Time]]'' was published in 1988.

==Content==
In it Hawking explains to a general audience various matters relating to the [[Lucasian Professor of Mathematics|Lucasian professor]]'s work, such as [[Gödel's Incompleteness Theorem]] and [[P-branes]] (part of [[superstring theory]] in [[quantum mechanics]]). He tells the history and principles of modern physics. He seeks to "combine Einstein's General Theory of Relativity and Richard Feynman's idea of multiple histories into one complete unified theory that will describe everything that happens in the universe."<ref>[http://www.hawking.org.uk/the-universe-in-a-nutshell.html ''The Universe in a Nutshell''] at Hawking.org.uk</ref>

==Awards==
The Universe in a Nutshell is winner of [[the Aventis Prizes for Science Books]] 2002.{{Citation needed|date=September 2023}}

== See also ==
* [[Roger Penrose]]
* [[Kip Thorne]]
* [[Physical cosmology]]
* [[Positivism#Further thinkers|Positivism]]
* [[List of textbooks on classical mechanics and quantum mechanics|List of textbooks on classical and quantum mechanics]]
*[[General relativity|List of books on general relativity]]

== References ==
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