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Oliver Sacks | 352 pages | 25 Feb 2016 | Pan MacMillan | 9781509813698 | English | London, United Kingdom Over the Volcano

This is Sacks' inspiring memoir of his early teenage years, when his growing scientific mind recapitulated the history of chemistry through reading and his own hands-on experiments. In addition to Uncle Tungsten, Sacks's family members were brainy and colorful characters who are quite fun to read about. This worked out well for some children, but being sent to boarding school at the age of six was traumatic for me like many othersbecause of the long separation from my parents and the somewhat abusive atmosphere in the school. Start your review of Uncle Tungsten. Shelves: all-time-favoritesbiographysciencechemistry. John McCrone. Instead, this is a book for anyone who has ever suffered the classroom version of doing science and wondered what could motivate a person to make a career of it. Oliver was fascinated with Tungsten and its proper grew up in North London surrounded by scientific aunts and uncles. Will I be confused or bored by this book? The school moved from London to the countryside because of the war. I am struck by Sack's language throughout, the lyrical quality with which he describes a unique home life in London during Uncle Tungsten: Memories of a Chemical Boyhood Second World War, the chemical explorations of his boyhood my son was especially struck by the idea of another year-o I read Uncle Tungsten: Memories of a Chemical Boyhood, a chapter at a time, as bedtime reading for my year-old son, who is very much into science, and said son Uncle Tungsten: Memories of a Chemical Boyhood now fascinated with chemistry, its history, and all the people that were involved in many of the theories that have been proved. I spent thousands of hours exploring, multiplying and dividing, and factoring numbers, looking for patterns and special relationships, suspecting these might have some mysterious significance, might be somehow a key to the universe. Sort order. Uncle Tungsten is the autobiography we might have expected. Lists with This Book. When his brother Michael began suffering from and psychosis, Sacks felt ''a passionate sympathy for him,'' and ''half-knew what he was going through,'' but he also found himself pulling away from the brother who was closest to him in age. It is a very good book, but I believe it will not be readable for many. Uncle Tungsten This book is part of a new 6-book cover-collage design. Feb 10, Nancy rated it it was ok Uncle Tungsten: Memories of a Chemical Boyhood memoirwestern-europeessaysscience. Light for the Masses. The book combines autobiographical elements with a primer in the history and science of chemistry. What a nice way to learn something about the history of science. Fire protection? Sacks' middle name is 'Wolf', and in most European especially Germanic, Spanish and Slavic languages, tungsten is named "Wolfram", which is the origin of the chemical symbol W. Buzz Aldrin and Ken Abraham. Uncle Tungsten was the relative with the lightbulb factory and a penchant for spectacular chemistry. This is the very personal memoir of Dr. As a kid I really liked my chemistry set - maybe that is why I grew up to teach high school chemistry. Other editions. These people were those very few who can take book knowledge and in an instant give you an example in nature that demonstrates what is in the books. He died in He explored Uncle Tungsten: Memories of a Chemical Boyhood odors, mixing various sulfurlike elements with acid and concluding that hydrogen selenide is the most disgusting smell in the world, like putrefying radishes or cabbages. I began looking for paragraphs that contained "I" and skimming the rest. Sacks takes a slice of his life - the few boyhood years when he had a passion for chemistry - and weaves his own enthusiasm for the subject with a potted history of chemistry itself. In fact, several times he says he feels his parents were blind to his problems or miseries, particularly when, inthey sent him away from the hazards of wartime London to a country boarding school called Braefield. About This Life. Aug 09, Ed rated it liked it. This is a memoir of a brilliant man's curious evolution as an inquiring mind. I had a very strong personal reaction to this book Sacks reminds me very much of my late fatherso it's hard for me to judge whether it's a good book in any objective sense. His brothers also went on to become physicians, as did Oliver. The Sackses were fairly observant Jews, Uncle Tungsten: Memories of a Chemical Boyhood Oliver regarded as a mixed blessing. Every paragraph in the book prompts one to go out and do an experiment, look at a pinecone or a sunflower. Is there one particular passion that stands out in its intensity or strangeness? Chemical

One amazing aspect of the story is how easy it was for Sacks to acquire chemicals that Uncle Tungsten: Memories of a Chemical Boyhood quite dangerous and how tolerant his parents were of the goings-on in his lab in an attached shed. I think this is the most personal of Sacks' books. Mark Vanhoenacker. I feel totally terrible on giving up on this book. A nervous child of six, he was sent to a school where he was bullied and beaten remorselessly; he recalls being charged the cost of a cane that the headmaster broke across his backside. It can be argued that the chemistry is part of the biography since, as a child, it was the most important interest of the author. I read this as an audiobook downloaded from Audible. Exuberant and informative. Once the furious hissing and frothing had subsided, he urged the young Oliver Sacks to have a sip. Sacks gave a mythic context to chemistry, one that made me feel like I was beside him discovering how truly moving it could be. Help Learn to edit Community portal Recent changes Upload file. Trivia About Uncle Tungsten. Watch You Bleed. His romance with chemistry continued for another year or two, eventually leading him to flirt with basic nuclear processes at the dawn of the atomic age shortly after WW2. I am struck by Sack's language throughout, the lyrical quality with which he describes a unique home life in London during the Second World War, the chemical explorations of his boyhood my son was especially struck by the idea of another year-o I read this, a chapter at a time, as bedtime reading for my year-old son, who is very much into science, and said son is now fascinated with chemistry, its history, and all the people that were involved in many of the theories that have been proved. Lists with This Book. As a kid I really liked my chemistry set - maybe that is why I grew up to teach high school chemistry. The premise is an autobiographic one. 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. Diffident, celibate, disastrously absent-minded and accident-prone; a hippy who was into drugs, bikes and body-building in s California; now a professor of neurology in New York. 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. Paperback —. One cannot Uncle Tungsten: Memories of a Chemical Boyhood such liberality or forbearance today. Definitely recommended reading for chemistry fans. Both grew equally well, so even the consolation of faith was lost to him. Also by Oliver Sacks. In many ways, Sacks's memoir gives the history of chemistry advances in the Uncle Tungsten: Memories of a Chemical Boyhood and 20th century. What makes the sun shine? The magic of this book is how Sacks combined the two into an engaging narrative. What's perhaps even more compelling in Sacks's story is his depiction of life before and during the war. Oliver Sacks. Although the topic fascinates me, I would never bother googling it. With ''Uncle Tungsten,'' Sacks has reignited the fire, so the rest of us can read by its glow. Jan 29, Kimberly Lightle rated it really liked it Shelves: chemistrybiographyhistory-of-science. This grew into differentia This Uncle Tungsten: Memories of a Chemical Boyhood Sacks' inspiring memoir of his early teenage years, when his growing scientific mind recapitulated the history of chemistry Uncle Tungsten: Memories of a Chemical Boyhood reading and his own hands-on experiments. Never mind! Related Articles. Sacks was born in London inthe youngest of four boys. This is an odd book--part autobiography, part history of chemistry. Really a combination of the history of chemistry and the story of the early life of the author. This can be frustrating. In this endlessly charming and eloquent memoir, the author of The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat and Awakenings Uncle Tungsten: Memories of a Chemical Boyhood his love affair with science and the magnificently odd and sometimes harrowing childhood in which that love affair unfolded. To appreciate this book as it should be you should do and see what he saw as his parents and aunts and uncles guided him through science, giving him a hands-on visual, auditory and olfactory knowledge of what happens when you mix this chemical with that or view and touch an object of nature. Then it all changed for him when adolescence barged in, bring with it other imperatives. Or perhaps it was the symmetry, the comprehensiveness of every element firmly locked into its place, with no gaps, no exceptions, everything implying everything else. Shelves: all-time-favoritesbiographysciencechemistry. This was a period which Oliver considered This is the very personal memoir of Dr. Uncle Tungsten

Really the Blues. Oliver Sacks. Goodreads helps you keep track Uncle Tungsten: Memories of a Chemical Boyhood books you want to read. Sacks had faced even deeper trauma when evacuated during the second world war. Sep 13, Jean rated it really liked it Shelves: autobiographysciencenon-fictionUncle Tungsten: Memories of a Chemical Boyhoodaudio-book. At 14, his mother sent him off to a proper anatomy class: an oil skin was pulled back on the cadaver of a young girl and he was told to get started on the nearest leg. I think part of my aversion to the subjects was how mortified Exuberant and informative. He and his two eldest brothers made ''volcanoes'' with ammonium dichromate, setting fire to a pyramid of the orange crystals, which then became red hot, threw off sparks in all directions and swelled like Mount Vesuvius in miniature. Sacks's writing is all that, and sometimes, no matter how closely you read it, you can't quite figure out what makes it so precisely, unsparingly light. Safety glasses? For example, in the course of an otherwise matter-of-fact disquisition on the chemical nature of inert gases like helium, neon and xenon, which cannot combine with other elements to form compounds, Sacks inserts the sad and simple little footnote that he ''identified at times with the inert gases. There were so many examples that I drowned and lost count and felt bereaved by my lack of knowledge. For Sacks, Uncle Tungsten: Memories of a Chemical Boyhood onset of puberty coincided with his discovery of biology, his departure from his childhood love of chemistry and, at age 14, a new understanding that he would become a doctor. The book is named after Sacks's Uncle Dave, whom Oliver nicknamed Uncle Tungsten because he was secretary Uncle Tungsten: Memories of a Chemical Boyhood a business named Tungstalite [1]which made incandescent lightbulbs with a tungsten filament. Get A Copy. His family was closely connected to the Jewish community in London and his stories about this culture are interesting and evocative; he says that this tight knit society ceased to be after the war. Light My Fire. Using equipment and materials borrowed from his uncle's factory or bought for a few pence from nonchalant wholesalers, Sacks went far beyond the usual stinks and bangs of the classroom. I highly recommend this book to those who are well educated in the sciences, particularly chemistry. By Oliver Sacks. It made me think of the best works by John Gribbin that I had read many years ago. After converting his British qualifications to American recognition i. Jun 21, Fred Jacobson rated it really liked it. LitFlash The eBooks you want at the lowest prices. Many readers and patients are happy with that decision. As a chemist, I found Uncle Tungsten to be a wonderful description of the joys that many of us found as children in learning about, and playing with, chemicals- in those pre-litigation times when you could still by "Chemistry Sets". Looking for More Great Reads? Sacks was formerly employed as a clinical professor of neurology at the Albert Einstein College of Medicine and at the New York University School of Medicine, serving the latter school for 42 years. We are experiencing technical difficulties. Error rating book. Ray Manzarek. He loved the colors of chemistry, the pinks of cobalt and manganese, the deep blue-greens of copper salts. Once, on a visit home, he locked the family dog, Greta, in a coal bin outside, where she almost froze to death. But it frightened me too, made me feel that my atoms were only on loan and might fly apart at any time, fly away like the fine talcum powder I saw in the Uncle Tungsten: Memories of a Chemical Boyhood. Great fun romping inside the mind of Oliver Sacks as he reminisces of childhood days. Why did you decide to pursue neurology? On 1 JulyColumbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons appointed Sacks to a position as professor of clinical neurology and clinical psychiatry, at the same time opening to him a new position as "artist", which the university hoped will help interconnect disciplines such as medicine, law, and economics. Kiss and Make-Up. Mother ordered this book some time ago and wanted me to read it. In fact, several times he says he feels his parents were blind to his problems or miseries, particularly when, inthey sent him away from the hazards of wartime London to a country boarding school called Braefield. See 1 question about Uncle Tungsten…. I have eccentrics in my bloodline, but the eccentrics in Sacks' family were brilliant polymaths. He can't quite say why he abandoned his first love and walked away from Mendeleev's Garden.

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