Aaric See’s Reviews > The Disappearing Spoon: And Other True Tales of Madness, Love, and the History of the World from the Periodic Table of the Elements > Status Update

It tells me about some many very famous people that were mentally ill and still created some of their famous work it even explained how when they got medicine it made them become less famous because there work got worse.

Basically its saying all the chemist that have multiple nobel prizes for finding multiple elements on the periodic table

I learn many of the names of the scientist that helped put elements on the periodic table

I learn th e names of some of the many scientist that created elements on the periodic table

It tells me about chemicals such as nitrogen making sparks go away and humans can't breathe it or you will die

Basically the main character taught me how to build a bomb

Ever since the main character was a kid and saw his mom break a thermometer and watched the little silver beads scatter all over the floor he has been interested in the periodic table.