Book club – Uncle Tungsten by Oliver Sacks

This month we're celebrating 20 years of a popular science classic: Uncle Tungsten: Memories of a Chemical Boyhood by Oliver Sacks. In his memoir, Sacks – who later became a famous neurologist – recounts how he discovered his love for science growing up in the 1930 and 40s. We'll try to find out whether this book is worth reading (or re-reading), chat to the chemist whose own childhood was influenced by Sacks' work and talk to Laura Snyder, the historian of science writing Sacks' biography.

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Book club – Uncle Tungsten by Oliver Sacks is an episode from Chemistry World Book Club by Chemistry World.

This episode is 21:08 long.

This episode was published on Jan 13, 2021.

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