The New York Times bestselling debut of popular science's answer to Malcolm Gladwell
Sam Kean spent years collecting mercury from broken thermometers as a child and now he is a writer in Washington DC. His work has appeared in the New York Times Magazine, Mental Floss, Slate, Air & Space/Smithsonian and New Scientist. In 2009 he was a runner-up for the National Association of Science Writers' Evert Clark/Seth Payne Award for best science writer under the age of thirty. He currently writes for Science. This is his first book.
Kean has Bill Bryson's comic touch... a lively history of the
elements and the characters behind their discovery
*New Scientist*
A wealth of fascinating stories with a dazzling cast of heroes and
villains. Written with gusto and backed by a mind-boggling amount
of research, this is a real page turner
*Daily Telegraph*
One of the most readable and entertaining books about science yet
published ... [Kean] is master of enlightening metaphors
*Daily Express*
The periodic table meets the best-seller list with Sam Kean's
Disappearing Spoon, an engaging tour of the elements... with the
éclat of raw sodium dropped in a beaker of water
*The New York Times*
the anecdotal flourishes of Oliver Sacks and the populist
accessibility of Malcolm Gladwell
*Entertainment Weekly*
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