A Periodic Tale
my sciencey memoir, the bestselling life-long story of australia's favourite science champion dr karl kruszelnicki, shortlisted for the abia biography of the year 2025
$29.63
- Paperback
448 pages
- Release Date
26 August 2025
Summary
Dr. Karl: A Life Less Linear - From Steelworks to Stardust
How did a shy Polish immigrant kid - Karl Sven Woytek Sas Konkovitch Matthew Kruszelnicki - evolve into the fabulously eccentric Dr Karl?
Shortlist ABIA Biography of the Year 2025
The only child of Holocaust survivors who fled to Australia in 1950, Karl has always forged his own destiny in an idiosyncratic way. Before he became one of the world’s favourite scientific storytel…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780733340352 |
|---|---|
| ISBN-10: | 0733340350 |
| Author: | Karl Kruszelnicki |
| Publisher: | ABC Books |
| Imprint: | ABC Books |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 448 |
| Release Date: | 26 August 2025 |
| Weight: | 504g |
| Dimensions: | 235mm x 154mm x 33mm |
About The Author
Karl Kruszelnicki
Dr Karl Kruszelnicki AM just loves science to pieces, and has been spreading the word in print, on TV and radio and online for more than thirty years. The author of forty-eight books, Dr Karl is a lifetime student with degrees in physics and mathematics, biomedical engineering, medicine and surgery. He has worked as a physicist, labourer, roadie for bands, car mechanic, filmmaker, biomedical engineer, taxi driver, TV weatherman, and medical doctor at the Children’s Hospital in Sydney. Since 1995, Dr Karl has been the Julius Sumner Miller Fellow at the University of Sydney. In 2019 he was awarded the UNESCO Kalinga Prize for the Popularisation of Science, previous recipients of which include Margaret Mead, David Attenborough, Bertrand Russell and David Suzuki.
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