Uncle Tungsten (häftad)
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Häftad (Paperback / softback)
Språk
Engelska
Antal sidor
352
Utgivningsdatum
2023-04-20
Förlag
Picador
Dimensioner
24 x 187 x 125 mm
Vikt
265 g
ISBN
9781529087444

Uncle Tungsten

Memories of a Chemical Boyhood

av Oliver Sacks
Häftad,  Engelska, 2023-04-20
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Uncle Tungsten radiates all the delight and wonder of a boys 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 intellectual curiosity that would shape his later life. And we hear of his return to London, an emotionally bereft ten-year-old who found solace in his passion for learning. 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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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 *

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Oliver Sacks was born in 1933 in London and was educated at Queens College, Oxford. He completed his medical training at San Franciscos Mount Zion Hospital and at UCLA before moving to New York, where he soon encountered the patients whom he would write about in his book Awakenings. Dr Sacks spent almost fifty years working as a neurologist and wrote many books, including The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat, Musicophilia, and Hallucinations, about the strange neurological predicaments and conditions of his patients. The New York Times referred to him as the poet laureate of medicine, and over the years he received many awards, including honours from the Guggenheim Foundation, the National Science Foundation, the American Academy of Arts and Letters, and the Royal College of Physicians. In 2008, he was appointed Commander of the British Empire. His memoir, On the Move, was published shortly before his death in August 2015.

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