Oliver Sacks | |
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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]