Uncle Tungsten by Oliver Sacks

I wish I would have read this as a chem major in college. It evokes the wonder of nature often seen in biologists it seems but not in chemists. A biography of a child chemist recapitulating the history of chemistry, a little too neatly perhaps but engagingly. Metals, the periodic table, explosions (where were the parents?!). Humphry Davy seems to be interesting as is Boyle. I enjoyed this book.