Oliver Sacks

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."NYU Langone Medical Center Welcomes Neurologist and Author Oliver Sacks, MD". newswise.com 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. 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.Sacks, O. On the Move: A Life. Knopf (2015). 

Sacks was diagnosed with terminal uveal melanoma and liver cancer in January 2015. He died on 30 August 2015 at his home in New York City at the age of 82 from liver cancer.New York Times Oliver Sacks dies at 82 neurologist and author explored the brains quirks

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Other websites

Oliver Sacks' official website
Oliver Sacks  at Columbia University
Oliver Sacks article archive at The New York Review of Books
Oliver Sacks  on CNN in January 2011
Oliver Sacks  on Science Friday, National Public Radio

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