October 16 LANGUAGE. Uncle Tungsten by Oliver Sacks (Picador, £6.99, 337pp) The author's celebrated outbursts on The Moral Maze often took the form of an acid comment on his target's appearance. Publisher: Vintage Books, 2002. … English. Biographies & Memoirs. ID Numbers Open Library OL7424975M Internet Archive uncletungstenmem00sack ISBN 10 0375404481 ISBN 13 9780375404481 Library Thing 6083 Goodreads 1045401. Mudpuddle says: May 26, 2020 at 5:47 pm. uncle tungsten memories of a chemical boyhood kindle edition by sacks oliver download it once and read it on your kindle device pc phones or tablets use features like bookmarks note taking and highlighting while reading uncle tungsten memories of a chemical boyhood title uncle tungsten memories of a chemical boyhood by sacks oliver vintage2002 paperback reprint edition author … For him Uncle Tungsten is "a mixture of the reminiscent impulse and perhaps a pedagogic one. Uncle Tungsten (in reality, Dave) was one of his mother's 17 siblings, many involved in the sciences. Penguin Random House LLC. Alden Mudge writes from Oakland, California. 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. Lists containing this Book. He tells of the large science-steeped family who fostered his early fascination with chemistry. The rare-earth elements, which both Uncle Tungsten and Uncle Abe so loved, have now become common and found countless uses in fluorescent materials, … GENRE. This specific ISBN edition is currently not available. In Uncle Tungsten, Oliver Sacks evokes, with warmth and wit, his upbringing in wartime England. Uncle Tungsten: Memories of a Chemical Boyhood . Read reviews from world’s largest community for readers. I would like to imagine that there are other 10 and 12 and 14-year-old boys and girls who find resonance and excitement in such discoveries. Publisher: Picador, 2016. Lists containing this Book. 3.97 avg rating • (5,142 ratings by Goodreads) Softcover ISBN 10: 0375704043 ISBN 13: 9780375704048. 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. There follow his years at boarding school where, though unhappy, he developed the intellectual curiosity that would shape his later life. Sacks was stimulated to learn more and more about chemistry, and chemistry was all around him at this time in his life. This specific ISBN edition is currently not available. American Autobiographies, Including book. The “Uncle Tungsten” of the book’s title is Sacks’s Uncle Dave, who manufactured light bulbs with filaments of fine tungsten wire, and who first initiated Sacks into the mysteries of metals. Read more. Uncle Tungsten was … There follow his years at boarding school where, though unhappy, he … Uncle Tungsten by Oliver Sacks - Goodreads Uncle Tungsten: Memories of a Chemical Boyhood is a memoir by Oliver Sacks about his childhood published in 2001. i read this some years ago and it led to the absorption of other books by him… all of them interesting, especially the one on musicians… he was an extraordinary man and the best type of human… Reply. View all copies of this ISBN edition: Synopsis; About this title; … Uncle Tungsten is a memoir of Sacks, growing up in Britain under the Blitz, a child of a remarkable family. SIZE. another uncle was a Physicist and introduced Oliver to many of the wonders of science and nature. About Uncle Tungsten. Sacks, Oliver. RESOLVED from Lisa; Ed's Science Biographies from mishi bo; Biographies … He was encouraged in this by several family members in a most remarkable family, chief among them his Uncle Dave, the Uncle Tungsten (he owned a light bulb factory) of the title. Oliver Sacks. 3.97 avg rating • (5,327 ratings by Goodreads) Softcover ISBN 10: 1509813691 ISBN 13: 9781509813698. View all copies of … Uncle Tungsten, his uncle in London where he grew up during the war years, ran a factory making electric light bulbs, which of course work successfully, because they have tungsten filaments. Uncle Tungsten radiates all the delight and wonder of a boy's adventures, and is an unforgettable portrait of an extraordinary young mind. Uncle Tungsten: Memories of a Chemical Boyhood. Uncle Tungsten: Memories of a Chemical Boyhood is a memoir by Oliver Sacks about his childhood published in 2001.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 … He tells of the large science-steeped family who fostered his early fascination with chemistry. EN. Uncle Tungsten radiates all the delight and wonder of a boy's adventures, and is an unforgettable portrait of an extraordinary young mind. Uncle Tungsten is a crystalline view of a brilliant young mind springing to life, a story of growing up which is by turns elegiac, comic, and wistful, full of the electrifying joy of discovery. I want to retrace a journey into wonder." Uncle Tungsten: Memories of a Chemical Boyhood, published in 2001, is Sacks’ remembrance of his boyhood in England during the 1940s. SELLER. 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