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Oliver Sacks

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Oliver Sacks
Sexo mascule
Nascentia 1933-07-09 (Willesden)
Decesso 2015-08-30 (Greenwich Village)
Causa de decesso liver metastasis[*]
Citatania Regno Unite
Educate in The Queen's College[*], St Paul's School[*], Hall School[*]
Occupation scriptor, chimico, physician writer[*], neuologo[*], science communicator[*], scenarista[*], professor universitari[*], medico
Cognoscite pro Libros popular con studios de caso de su patientes e sur su proprie vita
Obras notabile The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat[*], Awakenings[*]
Religion atheismo
Conjuge sin valor
Premios Guggenheim Fellowship[*], Commander of the Order of the British Empire[*], George Polk Award[*], Lewis Thomas Prize[*], Hawthornden Prize[*], Oskar Pfister Award[*], Emperor Has No Clothes Award[*], honorary doctorate from the Pontifical Catholic University of Peru[*], Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science[*], Bodley Medal[*]
Lingua anglese
Signatura
Sito http://www.oliversacks.com/
Identificatores
ISNI 0000000081324605
VIAF 54167025
IMDB nm0755312
Commons
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]

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  1. "NYU Langone Medical Center Welcomes Neurologist and Author Oliver Sacks, MD". newswise.com
  2. Brown, Andrew (5 de martio 2005). Oliver Sacks Profile: Seeing double. The Guardian. Recuperate le 10 de augusto 2008.
  3. Sacks, O. On the Move: A Life. Knopf (2015). ISBN: 0385352549
  4. 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.
  5. New York Times Oliver Sacks dies at 82 neurologist and author explored the brains quirks