Oliver Sacks
Oliver Sacks | |
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 Sacks at the 2009 Brooklyn Book Festival | |
| Born | Oliver Wolf Sacks 9 July 1933 |
| Died | 30 August 2015 (aged 82) |
| Nationality | British |
| Occupation | Neurologist |
| Known for | Popular books containing case studies of some of his patients |
Oliver Wolf Sacks, CBE (9 July 1933 – 30 August 2015) was a British neurologist, writer, and amateur chemist. He was Professor of Neurology at New York University graduate School of Medicine.[1] The 1990 movie Awakenings was based on his book where he was played by Robin Williams.
Sacks was born on 9 July 1933 in London, England to a Jewish family.[2] He studied at St Paul's School, at Queen's College, Cambridge, and at Oxford University.
He addressed his homosexuality for the first time in his 2015 autobiography On the Move: A Life.[3]
Sacks was diagnosed with terminal uveal melanoma and liver cancer in January 2015.[4] He died on 30 August 2015 at his home in New York City at the age of 82 from liver cancer.[5]
References
[change | change source]- ↑ "NYU Langone Medical Center Welcomes Neurologist and Author Oliver Sacks, MD". newswise.com
- ↑ Brown, Andrew (5 March 2005). "Oliver Sacks Profile: Seeing double". The Guardian. Retrieved 10 August 2008.
- ↑ Sacks, O. On the Move: A Life. Knopf (2015). ISBN 0385352549
- ↑ Sacks, Oliver (February 19, 2015). "My Own Life: Oliver Sacks on Learning He Has Terminal Cancer". The New York Times. Retrieved February 19, 2015.
- ↑ New York Times Oliver Sacks dies at 82 neurologist and author explored the brains quirks
Other websites
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Media related to Oliver Sacks at Wikimedia Commons
Quotations related to Oliver Sacks at Wikiquote
- Oliver Sacks' official website
- Oliver Sacks Archived 2013-03-04 at the Wayback Machine at Columbia University
- Oliver Sacks article archive at The New York Review of Books
- Oliver Sacks Archived 2011-01-08 at the Wayback Machine on CNN in January 2011
- Oliver Sacks Archived 2012-04-03 at the Wayback Machine on Science Friday, National Public Radio
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