Monthly archives: January 2021


Uncle Tungsten – Oliver Sachs

The story of the chemical fascination of a young boy growing up in London in the 1930s in a large Jewish family flickers in and out between biography and a history of chemistry itself. As a precocious child, Oliver Sachs, under the guidance of the title’s Uncle Tungsten, a lightbulb […]

Cover the book Uncle Tungsten by Oliver Sachs