The London-born neurologist died in New York in August 2015 at the age of 82 The writer was previously described as the 'poet laureate of medicine' Celebrated scientist Oliver Sacks, whose bestselling ...

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Aug 30 (Reuters) - Oliver Sacks, the neurologist who studied the intricacies of the brain and wrote eloquently about them in books such as "Awakenings" and "The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat," ...

When Oliver Sacks died in 2015, the world lost a polymathic scientist, a man of great energy and infinite curiosity. The physician and author of “Awakenings” (1973), “The Man Who Mistook His Wife for ...

Oliver Sacks, the author of "Awakenings" and "The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat," speaks at Columbia University in 2009. (Chris McGrath / Getty Images) There are those who can write, and those ...

Dr. Oliver Sacks, whose books like "The Man Who Mistook His Wife For a Hat" probed distant ranges of human experience by compassionately portraying people with severe and sometimes bizarre ...

The voluminous papers of the celebrated neurologist include letters, notebooks, drafts and other traces of a man who couldn’t stop writing. By Jennifer Schuessler For his 75th birthday, friends of the ...

Dr. Oliver Sacks, the famous neurologist and author, passed away in summer 2016. One of my favorite essays from his volume The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat (1985), is “The Twins.” John and ...