Uncle Tungsten Essay

In “Uncle Tungsten: Memories of a Chemical Boyhood” by Oliver Sacks, it is validly classified as an autobiography that is based on the memoirs on Oliver Sacks’ childhood in relation to his learning experience in the scientific topic of chemistry. The reason why I chose this book is because of the fact that the book is about a relatable main character, Oliver Sacks in his early years, and the interesting idea of learning about the out-of-school curriculum of a unique youngster who took an interest for chemistry at such an early age during a different time decades ago. The book “Uncle Tungsten” is organized in accordance to Oliver Sacks’ memoirs beginning with his years spent in elementary school then leading up to his first years in high school

The family member that Oliver Sacks seemingly related to the most was his uncle Dave (nicknamed Uncle Tungsten). Because of Uncle Dave, Oliver gains his initial interest in chemistry and acquires many-detailed information that gets described in the book, thus introducing the educational value of chemistry in the book. This book also goes into great detail in the experiments performed from Oliver Sack’s experience, explaining the functions associated with each procedure and why they are essential. And aside from the factual information, there is noticeably great detail about the history of chemistry concerning what different individuals contributed to chemistry. In “Uncle Tungsten”, one of the first major topics and most relevant during Oliver’s time was the making of the colored photograph. In the teaching of color, it was stated that superimposing plates of ordinary black and white along with the three primary colors being red, green, and violet and then projecting them, explodes the pictures into full color. This demonstrates the fact that every color visible to the human eye can be constructed to these three primary colors because the eye has three equivalently tuned color receptors. Also, in reflection of the discovering