Uncle Tungsten radiates all the delight and wonder of a boy's adventures, and is an unforgettable portrait of an extraordinary young mind. Oliver Sacks evokes, with warmth and wit, his upbringing in wartime England. He tells of the large science-steeped family who fostered his early fascination with chemistry.
There follow his years at boarding school where, though unhappy, he developed the intellectual curiosity that would shape his later life. And we hear of his return to London, an emotionally bereft ten-year-old who found solace in his passion for learning. 'If you did not think that gallium and iridium could move you, this superb book will change your mind' - The Times
萨克斯医生作为一名神经科医生工作了近50年,写了许多书,包括《把妻子误认为帽子的人》(The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat)、《嗜乐症》(Musicophilia)和《幻觉》(Hallucinations),讲述了他的病人的奇特神经困境和病症。纽约时报》称他为 "医学界的桂冠诗人",多年来他获得了许多奖项,包括古根海姆基金会、美国国家科学基金会、美国艺术与文学学会和英国皇家内科医学院授予的荣誉。2008年,他被任命为大英帝国司令。他的回忆录《On the Move》于2015年8月去世前不久出版。
Oliver Sacks was born in 1933 in London and was educated at Queen's College, Oxford. He completed his medical training at San Francisco's Mount Zion Hospital and at UCLA before moving to New York, where he soon encountered the patients whom he would write about in his book Awakenings.
Dr Sacks spent almost fifty years working as a neurologist and wrote many books, including The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat, Musicophilia, and Hallucinations, about the strange neurological predicaments and conditions of his patients. The New York Times referred to him as 'the poet laureate of medicine', and over the years he received many awards, including honours from the Guggenheim Foundation, the National Science Foundation, the American Academy of Arts and Letters, and the Royal College of Physicians. In 2008, he was appointed Commander of the British Empire. His memoir, On the Move, was published shortly before his death in August 2015.
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