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  schema location: http://www.loc.gov/mods/v3 http://www.loc.gov/standards/mods/v3/mods-3-2.xsd
  title info:
    title: Uncle Tungsten
    sub title: memories of a chemical boyhood
  name:
    name part: Sacks, Oliver
    name part: 1933-2015
    role:
      role term: creator
  type of resource: text
  genre: biography
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: nyu
    date issued: 2001
    edition: 1st ed.
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: print
    extent: viii, 337 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm.
  abstract: Long before Oliver Sacks became a neurologist and one of our finest science writers, he was a small English boy fascinated by metals -- and also by chemical reactions, the louder and smellier the better. His curiosity was encouraged and abetted by brilliantly quirky relatives: Auntie Len, who taught him that the beauty of numbers can be found in the spiral face of a sunflower; Uncle Dave, who invited the boy to his light-bulb factory; and two older brothers who entertained him by making ammonium dichromate "volcanoes." But Sacks's childhood was interrupted by the outbreak of the Second World War, when he was evacuated from London and sent to live in a boarding school that rivaled Dickens's grimmest creations. He was sustained through those difficult years by his passion for learning and for finding patterns in the world around him. Overflowing with humor, sadness, sensuous recollection, and the almost physical rapture of discovery, Uncle Tungsten re-creates the wonder of science as it is first experienced and chronicles the birth of an extraordinary and original mind.
  table of contents: Uncle Tungsten -- "37" -- Exile -- "An ideal metal" -- Light for the masses -- The land of Stabnite -- Chemical recreations -- Stinks and bangs -- Housecalls -- A chemical language -- Humphry Davy: a poet-chemist -- Images -- Mr. Dalton's round bits of wood -- Lines of force -- Home life -- Mendeleev's garden -- A pocket spectroscope -- Cold fire -- Ma -- Penetrating rays -- Madame Curie's element -- Cannery row -- The world set free -- Brilliant light -- The end of the affair.
  note: Oliver Sacks.
  note: Includes index.
  subject:
    geographic code: e-uk---
  subject:
    name:
      name part: Sacks, Oliver
      name part: 1933-2015
  subject:
    topic: Neurologists
    geographic: England
    topic: Biography
  subject:
    name:
      name part: Sacks, Oliver W
  subject:
    name:
      name part: Sacks, Oliver W
    topic: Enfance et jeunesse
  subject:
    name:
      name part: Sacks, Oliver W
    topic: Et la chimie
  subject:
    topic: Neurology
    genre: Personal Narratives
  classification: RC339.52.S23 A3 2001
  classification: 616.8/092 B
  classification: 2001 M-782
  classification: WZ 100 S1216u 2001
  identifier: 0375404481
  identifier: 2001033738
  record info:
    record content source: DLC
    record creation date: 010508
    record change date: 20160604063116.0
    record identifier: in00001825669