In Mendelev's Garden (TPB)
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Number of Pages: 337
Uncle Tungsten: Memories of a Chemical Boyhood is Oliver Sacks’s luminous memoir of growing up in wartime London amid the glow of Bunsen burners and the crackle of curiosity. Long before he became the beloved neurologist and storyteller of Awakenings and The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat, Sacks was a boy bewitched by chemistry. Guided by his eccentric Uncle Tungsten—owner of a light-bulb factory and a devotee of the periodic table—he found in the elements a language of beauty, logic, and wonder. Blending science, autobiography, and nostalgia, Sacks recreates a vanished era when discovery itself felt like alchemy, and shows how the discipline of chemistry sparked his lifelong fascination with the mysteries of mind and matter.
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Format: Paperback
Number of Pages: 337
Uncle Tungsten: Memories of a Chemical Boyhood is Oliver Sacks’s luminous memoir of growing up in wartime London amid the glow of Bunsen burners and the crackle of curiosity. Long before he became the beloved neurologist and storyteller of Awakenings and The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat, Sacks was a boy bewitched by chemistry. Guided by his eccentric Uncle Tungsten—owner of a light-bulb factory and a devotee of the periodic table—he found in the elements a language of beauty, logic, and wonder. Blending science, autobiography, and nostalgia, Sacks recreates a vanished era when discovery itself felt like alchemy, and shows how the discipline of chemistry sparked his lifelong fascination with the mysteries of mind and matter.