Uncle Tungsten: Memories of a Chemical Boyhood - Brossura

Sacks, Oliver

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ISBN 10: 0330390287 ISBN 13: 9780330390286

Casa editrice: Pan Macmillan, 2010

Riassunto

In Uncle Tungsten 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. Uncle Tungsten radiates all the delight and wonder of a boy's adventures, and is an unforgettable portrait of an extraordinary young mind. `If you did not think that gallium and iridium could move you, this superb book will change your mind' The Times `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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Descrizione del libro:

From Oliver Sacks, distinguished neurologist and master storyteller, comes a magical account of childhood, told with the charm and power of his celebrated case histories.

L'autore:

Oliver Sacks was educated in London, Oxford, California and New York. He is a professor of clinical neurology at Albert Einstein College of Medicine. He is the author of many books, including the bestselling The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat and Awakenings.

Su questa edizione

• Editore: Pan Macmillan
• Data di pubblicazione: 2010
• ISBN 10: 0330390287
• ISBN 13: 9780330390286
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero di pagine: 337