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Book club – Uncle Tungsten by Oliver Sacks
Book club – Uncle Tungsten by Oliver Sacks
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Length:
21 minutes
Released:
Jan 13, 2021
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Podcast episode
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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.
Released:
Jan 13, 2021
Format:
Podcast episode
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