Oliver Sacks
Oliver Sacks | |
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 Sacks at the 2009 Brooklyn Book Festival | |
| Born | Oliver Wolf Sacks 9 Julie 1933 London, England |
| Dee'd | 30 August 2015 (aged 82) New York City |
| Kent for | Popular books containing case studies of some of his patients |
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Oliver Wolf Sacks, CBE (9 Julie 1933 – 30 August 2015) wis a Breetish-American neurologist, writer, an amateur chemist. He wis Professor o Neurology at New York University School of Medicine.[1] The 1990 movie Awakenings wis basit on his book whaur he wis playit bi Robin Williams.
Sacks wis born on 9 Julie 1933 in London, England tae a Jewish faimily.[2] He studit at St Paul's School, at The Queen's College, an at Oxford University.
He addressit his homosexuality for the first time in his 2015 autobiography On the Move: A Life.[3]
Sacks wis diagnosit wi terminal liver cancer in Januar 2015.[4] He deit on 30 August 2015 at his home in New York Ceety at the age o 82 frae the disease.[5]
References
[eedit | eedit soorce]- ↑ "NYU Langone Medical Center Welcomes Neurologist and Author Oliver Sacks, MD". newswise.com
- ↑ Brown, Andrew (5 Mairch 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 (19 Februar 2015). "My Own Life: Oliver Sacks on Learning He Has Terminal Cancer". The New York Times. Retrieved 19 Februar 2015.
- ↑ New York Times Oliver Sacks dies at 82 neurologist and author explored the brains quirks
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Media relatit tae Oliver Sacks at Wikimedia Commons
Quotations relatit tae 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 Januar 2011
- Oliver Sacks Archived 2012-04-03 at the Wayback Machine on Science Friday, National Public Radio
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- Daiths frae liver cancer
- Cancer daiths in New York Ceety
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