Uncle Tungsten : memories of a chemical boyhood

Uncle Tungsten : memories of a chemical boyhood / Oliver Sacks.

Long before Oliver Sacks became a distinguished neurologist and bestselling writer, he was a small English boy fascinated by metals-also by chemical reactions (the louder and smellier the better), photography, squids and cuttlefish, H.G. Wells, and the periodic table. In this endlessly charming and...

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Main Author: Sacks, Oliver, 1933-2015 (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: New York : Vintage Books, [2002]
Edition:First Vintage Books Edition.
Subjects:
Sacks, Oliver, > 1933-2015.
Neurologists > England > Biography.
Biography.
Table of Contents:
  • Uncle Tungsten
  • "37"
  • Exile
  • "An ideal metal"
  • Light for the masses
  • Land of stibnite
  • Chemical recreations
  • Stinks and bangs
  • Housecalls
  • Chemical language
  • Humphry Davy: a poet-chemist
  • Images
  • Mr. Dalton's round bits of wood
  • Lines of force
  • Home life
  • Mendeleev's garden
  • Pocket spectroscope
  • Cold fire
  • Ma
  • Penetrating rays
  • Madame Curie's element
  • Cannery row
  • World set free
  • Brilliant light
  • End of the affair
  • Afterword.

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