Oliver Sacks (1933–2015)
Author of The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat and Other Clinical Tales
About the Author
Oliver Sacks was born in London, England on July 9, 1933. He received a medical degree from Queen's College, Oxford University and performed his internship at Middlesex Hospital in London and Mount Zion Hospital in San Francisco. He completed his residency at UCLA. In 1965, he became a clinical show more neurologist to the Little Sisters of the Poor and Beth Abraham Hospital. His work in a Bronx charity hospital led him to write the book Awakenings in 1973. The book inspired a play by Harold Pinter and became a film starring Robert De Niro and Robin Williams. His other works included An Anthropologist on Mars, The Mind's Eye, The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat, Uncle Tungsten, Musicophilia, A Leg to Stand On, On the Move: A Life, and Gratitude. In 2007, he ended his 42-year relationship with the Albert Einstein College of Medicine to accept an interdisciplinary teaching position at Columbia. In 2012, he returned to the New York University School of Medicine as a professor of neurology. He died of cancer on August 30, 2015 at the age of 82. (Bowker Author Biography) show less
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Works by Oliver Sacks
Awakenings, A Leg to Stand On, The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat, Seeing Voices (1984) 129 copies
Oliver Sacks: The Last Interview and Other Conversations (The Last Interview Series) (2016) 73 copies
Der Tag, an dem mein Bein fortging. Der Mann, der seine Frau mit einem Hut verwechselte (2008) 8 copies
De wereld der onnozelen 3 copies
Journal of Consciousness Studies (Controversies in Science & the Humanities, Volume 1, No. 2 (1994)) (1994) 2 copies
Oliver Sacks 3 Books Collection Set (The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat, Hallucinations, Awakenings) (2020) 2 copies
Oliver Sacks Reader 2 copies
Emicrania - Tomo I 1 copy
Comprende la psicología 1 copy
Emicrania - Tomo II 1 copy
My Own Life 1 copy
Associated Works
Phantoms in the Brain: Probing the Mysteries of the Human Mind (1998) — Foreword, some editions — 1,921 copies
The Man with a Shattered World: The History of a Brain Wound (1971) — Foreword, some editions — 220 copies
The Vintage Book of Amnesia: An Anthology of Writing on the Subject of Memory Loss (2000) — Contributor — 216 copies
Fixing My Gaze: A Scientist's Journey Into Seeing in Three Dimensions (2009) — Foreword — 191 copies
Know the Past, Find the Future: The New York Public Library at 100 (2011) — Contributor — 116 copies
Memory Book: A Benny Cooperman Detective Novel (Benny Cooperman Mysteries) (2005) — Afterword — 89 copies
Measure of the Heart: A Father's Alzheimer's, A Daughter's Return (2008) — Foreword, some editions — 54 copies
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Common Knowledge
- Canonical name
- Sacks, Oliver
- Legal name
- Sacks, Oliver Wolf
- Other names
- Sacks, Oliver W.
- Birthdate
- 1933-07-09
- Date of death
- 2015-08-30
- Gender
- male
- Nationality
- UK
- Country (for map)
- England, UK
- Birthplace
- London, England, UK
- Place of death
- New York, New York, USA
- Cause of death
- cancer
- Places of residence
- New York, New York, USA
- Education
- St Paul's School, London, UK
University of Oxford (Queen's College|BA|Physiology and Biology|1954)
University of Oxford (MA|BM|BCh|1958)
UCLA (residency in neurology and neuropathology|1965) - Occupations
- neurologist
professor - Relationships
- Eban, Abba (cousin)
Lynn, Jonathan (cousin)
Sacks, Jonathan (nephew)
Hayes, Bill (partner)
Miller, Jonathan (friend, #1)
Aumann, Robert (cousin) - Organizations
- UCLA Medical Center (resident. Neurology)
Beth Abraham Hospital (consulting neurologist ∙ Beth Abraham Health Services)
Yeshiva University (Albert Einstein College of Medicine ∙ clinical professor of neurology)
New York University (School of Medicine ∙ Adjunct professor of Neurology)
Columbia University (professor of clinical neurology and clinical psychology)
Little Sisters of the Poor (consultant neurologist) (show all 7)
University of Warwick (visiting professor) - Awards and honors
- Columbia artist (1st ∙ Columbia University)
Music Has Power Award (2000)
Beth Abraham (40 years of service)
Lewis Thomas Prize for Writing about Science (2001)
Asteroid Namesake (asteroid 84928 | 2008)
Commander, Order of the British Empire (2008) (show all 17)
American Academy of Arts and Letters (1996)
Institute for Music and Neurologic Function (honorary medical advisor)
Oskar Pfister Award (1988)
Harold D. Vursell Memorial Award (1989)
Mental Health Award (2004)
Fellow, Royal College of Physicians
American Academy of Arts and Sciences
American Neurological Association
American Psychoanalytic Association
Association of British Neurologists
New York Academy of Sciences - Short biography
- Oliver Sacks (Londen, 1933) is hoogleraar in de neurologie aan het Albert Einstein College of Medicine in New York. Als auteur verwierf hij internationale faam met onder andere De man die zijn vrouw voor een hoed hield, neurologische case-histories uit zijn eigen praktijk, en Ontwaken in verbijstering, waarin hij op betrokken wijze het ‘ontwaken’ uit de slaapziekte (Encephalitis lethargica) beschrijft.
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