«This book is both a heartwarming account of a delightful, eccentric family life and an inspiring record of a remarkable intellectual odyssey.»

Mail on Sunday

«The amalgamation of personal recollection and scientific history makes a luminous, inspiring book.»

Sunday Telegraph

«Uncle Tungsten is really about the raw joy of scientific understanding; what it is like to be a precocious child discovering the alchemical secrets of reality for the first time: the sheer thrill of finding intelligible patterns in nature.»

Guardian