Book Club: Uncle Tungsten
Event date: Wednesday 11 May 2011 - 06:00pm to 07:30pm
Location: The Science Exchange. Program: Book Club.
Bookings have closed for this event.
Location: The Science Exchange. Program: Book Club.
Bookings have closed for this event.
In honour of the UNESCO International Year of Chemistry, this month’s Book Club selection is Uncle Tungsten by Oliver Sacks, a novel which blends childhood memoir, family saga, and chemical history. It follows Sacks from the ten year old with ‘a passion for metals, for plants and for numbers’, who experimented with ‘stinkogens’ with his own chemistry set, to his fascination with the great chemists of history including the Royal Institution of Great Britain’s Humphry Davy.
‘If you did not think that gallium and iridium could move you, this superb book will change your mind.’ (The Times)
Join our group discussion if you have a passion for stories with a scientific twist.
Free, but booking required
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