Uncle Tungsten
16 June 2011Imprint: Picador
Synopsis
Uncle Tungsten radiates all the delight and wonder of a boy’s adventures, and is an unforgettable portrait of an extraordinary young mind.
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...
Details
16 June 2011352 pages
9780330537216Imprint: Picador
Reviews
This book is both a heartwarming account of a delightful, eccentric family life and an inspiring record of a remarkable intellectual odyssey.Mail on Sunday
The amalgamation of personal recollection and scientific history makes a luminous, inspiring book.Sunday Telegraph
Uncle Tungsten is really about the raw joy of scientific understanding; what it is like to be a precocious child discovering the alchemical secrets of reality for the first time: the sheer thrill of finding intelligible patterns in nature.Guardian
