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Uncle Tungsten
- Narrated by: Jonathan Davis
- Length: 10 hrs and 43 mins
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Publisher's Summary
In Uncle Tungsten, Oliver Sacks evokes, with warmth and wit, his upbringing in wartime England. He tells of the large science-steeped family who fostered his early fascination with chemistry. There follow his years at boarding school where, though unhappy, he developed the intellectual curiosity that would shape his later life. And we hear of his return to London, an emotionally bereft 10-year-old who found solace in his passion for learning.
Uncle Tungsten radiates all the delight and wonder of a boy’s adventures and is an unforgettable portrait of an extraordinary young mind.
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"If you did not think that gallium and iridium could move you, this superb book will change your mind." (The Times)
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- Ross McFarland
- 08-08-2021
I use chemistry books, but only periodically
This is an amazing story of those times when great discoveries in chemistry were still to be made... gaps still remained in the Periodic Table and remaking ingredients were readily agrarian at the local hardware store...
The story was well presented (although I'm guessing the narrator wasn't a science major), making it believable and warm... a task not easily accomplished for such taxing Subject matter.
Worth listening to in digestable segments..
I hope they will be be of these Scientist stories and but I'm worried these authors argon.....
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