Oliver Sacks
Oliver Wolf Sacks, CBE (9 de julio 1933 - 30 de augusto 2015) esseva un neurologo, autor, e chimico amateur qui esseva Professor de Neurologia a New York University School of Medicine.[1] In le film de 1990 Awakenings, un adaptation fictionalisate de su libro de memoria del mesme titulo, le personage del medico basate in Sacks mesme esseva representate per Robin Williams.
Sacks nasceva le 9 de julio 1933 in un area suburban de London, Anglaterra in un familia judee.[2] Ambe su parentes esseva medicos. Ille studeva a St Paul's School, a The Queen's College, e a Oxford University.
Ille parlava de su homosexualitate pro le prime vice in su autobiographia de 2015 On the Move: A Life.[3]
Sacks esseva diagnosticate con cancere hepatic terminal in januario 2015.[4] Ille moriva del maladia le 30 de augusto 2015 in su domo in New York City al etate de 82 annos.[5]
Referentias
[modificar | modificar fonte]- ↑ "NYU Langone Medical Center Welcomes Neurologist and Author Oliver Sacks, MD". newswise.com
- ↑ Brown, Andrew (5 de martio 2005). Oliver Sacks Profile: Seeing double. The Guardian. Recuperate le 10 de augusto 2008.
- ↑ Sacks, O. On the Move: A Life. Knopf (2015). ISBN: 0385352549
- ↑ Sacks, Oliver (19 de februario 2015). My Own Life: Oliver Sacks on Learning He Has Terminal Cancer, The New York Times. Recuperate le 19 de februario 2015.
- ↑ New York Times Oliver Sacks dies at 82 neurologist and author explored the brains quirks
