Ebook {Epub PDF} Uncle Tungsten by Oliver Sacks

The author of such bestsellers as Awakenings () and The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat (), British neurologist Oliver Sacks gained widespread recognition for his writings about brain disorders and their curious presentations. His first passion, however, was for chemistry, not biology. Uncle Tungsten: Memories of a Chemical Boyhood, published in , is Sacks’ remembrance of . Uncle Tungsten-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 . He endured two horrible years at a Dickensian boarding school while London was being bombed by the bltadwin.ru the most part though, his formative years were spent in a fantastic 'castle of the elements' where his "many uncles and aunts and cousins served as a sort of archive or reference library" to his enquiring bltadwin.ru "Uncle Tungsten," Dr. Sacks shares his learning experiences with us and in the Cited by:

In Uncle Tungsten we meet Sacks' extraordinary family, from his surgeon mother (who introduces the fourteen-year-old Oliver to the art of human dissection) and his father, a family doctor who imbues in his son an early enthusiasm for housecalls, to his "Uncle Tungsten," whose factory produces tungsten-filament lightbulbs. Oliver Sacks: Uncle Tungsten Oliver Sacks is a physician and writer whose exploration of the link between mind and body became part of the American popular culture with the release of Awakenings. Since then, this master storyteller has released other titles like The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat, An Anthropologist on Mars, and The Island. Uncle Tungsten: Memories of a Chemical Boyhood. No comments. Oliver Sacks. Picador. | pp | £ ISBN Buy this book on bltadwin.ru Buy this book on bltadwin.ru

Uncle Tungsten is an autobiographical account of Oliver Sacks' childhood, yet in parts, it also reads like a young boy's open love letter to Science; affectionately named after Sacks’ uncle (due to his lifelong obsession with metals, in particular, tungsten, whose filaments he used daily in the manufacturing of incandescent light bulbs). Uncle Tungsten: Memories of a Chemical Boyhood is a memoir by Oliver Sacks about his childhood published in The book is named after Sacks's Uncle Dave, whom Oliver nicknamed Uncle Tungsten because he was secretary of a business named Tungstalite, which made incandescent lightbulbs with a tungsten filament. Uncle Tungsten was fascinated with tungsten and believed it was the metal of the future. 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).