Join Libraries for a fabulous night celebrating the launch of Dr Karl’s new book A Periodic Tale: My Sciencey Memoir.
See Australia’s favourite scientific storyteller share his life story followed by a conversation with Mix FM’s Todd Widdicombe at The Events Centre, Caloundra.
In this long-awaited autobiography, discover how a shy Polish immigrant kid evolved into the eccentric and much-loved Dr Karl. This isn’t your typical trajectory to stardom, Karl has worked as a labourer, roadie for bands, car mechanic, filmmaker, biomedical engineer, taxi driver, TV weatherman, physicist, and medical doctor.
After he applied to be a NASA astronaut in the 1980s and ‘failed’, he ended up live broadcasting the first Space Shuttle launch on Triple J instead. Unexpectedly, that blasted off his media career, and from there it was a stratospheric rise from radio to TV, books, newspapers, speaking, podcasts and the internet. Dr Karl Kruszelnicki AM just loves science to pieces and has been spreading the word for more than thirty years via multiple media platforms. The author of forty-eight books, Dr Karl is a lifetime student with degrees in physics and mathematics, biomedical engineering, medicine and surgery.
Dr Karl’s book will be available for purchase from QBD Books at the venue with a special book signing session.
