Reading Group - Uncle Tungsten by Oliver Sacks

The seeds of Oliver Sack's lifelong appetite for science and his curiosity about human nature were both sown during his remarkable childhood. Uncle Tungsten is a evocative account of his early life in an intellectual London Jewish family combined with an absorbing short history of the scientific discipline that first seized his imagination - chemistry. The two are fused in the person of his eccentric Uncle Dave - known for various reasons as Uncle Tungsten.  Robert