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Uncle Tungsten

Pages
372
Published
2001
Language
English

Synopsis

Oliver Sacks recounts his childhood, from a fascination with the natural world to the harsh realities of wartime evacuation. Sent to a brutal boarding school during WWII, he found solace in his passions for science, particularly chemistry, under the guidance of his uncle. This memoir explores his early life and the experiences that shaped his unique perspective.

About the author

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Oliver Sacks

Oliver Sacks, M.D. was a physician, a best-selling author, and a professor of neurology at the NYU School of Medicine. The New York Times has referred to him as “the poet laureate of medicine.” He is best known for his collections of neurological case histories, including The Man who Mistook his Wife for a Hat, Musicophilia: Tales of Music and the Brain and An Anthropologist on Mars. Awakenings, his book about a group of patients who had survived the great encephalitis lethargica epidemic of...

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