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Oliver Sacks
Oliver Wolf Sacks was a British neurologist, naturalist, historian of science, and writer.
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science · British neurologist and writer (1933–2015) · writer · chemist · physician writer · neurologist · science communicator · screenwriter · university teacher · physician · also Oliver Sacks, Oliver Wolf Sacks, Oliver W. Sacks, Sacks
Born 9 July 1933 · Died 30 August 2015 · Q258662
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2026· 3 entries
Public attention spiked: 3,730 Wikipedia readers in one day, 5.5× the usual 684, with 0 article edits.
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Published video “Oliver Sacks | Amphetamines”.
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2025· 4 entries
Published video “Oliver Sacks on face blindness”.
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Published video “Oliver Sacks talks about how taking hallucinogens helped him understand his patients.”.
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Published video “As we mark the tenth anniversary of Oliver Sacks’s passing, his legacy remains as relevant as ever.”.
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Published video “Happy 92nd Birthday, Oliver Sacks! Here's a delightful clip from a lecture he gave in 2000.”.
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2024· 10 entries
The Washington Post: Oliver Sacks’s thoughtful letters offer inspiration and escape
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The Guardian: Letters by Oliver Sacks review – valuable insight into a curious mind
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The Guardian: Letters by Oliver Sacks review – science, sex and motorcycles
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Deadline.com: ‘Brilliant Minds’ Creator On Show’s “Love Letter” To Real-Life Queer Doctor Oliver Sacks
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Yahoo: How the True Story of Dr. Oliver Sacks Inspired NBC’s ‘Brilliant Minds’
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Published video “Oliver Sacks, Awakenings”.
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Published video “Oliver Sacks talks about his love of Charles Darwin”.
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Published video “An excerpt of Oliver Sacks’s writing on cacao in “Oaxaca Journal.””.
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Psychology Today: What Oliver Sacks Taught Me
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The New York Public Library announced that it had acquired Sacks's archive, including 35,000 letters, 7,000 photographs, manuscripts of his books, and journals and notebooks
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2023· 1 entry
Published video “The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat | Oliver Sacks”.
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2022· 1 entry
Picker premiered an opera of Awakenings at Opera Theatre of Saint Louis
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2021· 2 entries
The Guardian: Oliver Sacks: His Own Life review – beautiful and honest study of an amazing man
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IndieWire: ‘Oliver Sacks: His Own Life’ Review: A Calm Celebration of the Beloved Science Writer and His Many Chapters
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2020· 3 entries
CNET: Awakenings and amphetamines: Moving Oliver Sacks documentary looks back
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The Boston Globe: ‘Oliver Sacks: His Own Life’ gives the celebrated neurologist and author his own documentary
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IndieWire: ‘Oliver Sacks: His Own Life’ Trailer: The Legendary Thinker Gets the Documentary Treatment
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2019· 1 entry
“Above all, I have been a sentient being, a thinking animal, on this beautiful planet, and that in itself has been an enormous privilege and adventure.”
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2017· 6 entries
The Guardian: The River of Consciousness by Oliver Sacks review – ‘a lifetime of wisdom’
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The Guardian: The River of Consciousness by Oliver Sacks review – an agility of enthusiasms
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The Guardian: Living with Oliver Sacks and love in later life: Bill Hayes and Sylvia Brownrigg – podcast
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The Guardian: Insomniac City: New York, Oliver, and Me by Bill Hayes review – loving Oliver Sacks
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The Guardian: My life with Oliver Sacks: ‘He was the most unusual person I had ever known’
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Their friendship slowly evolved into a committed long-term partnership that lasted until Sacks's death; Hayes wrote about it in the 2017 memoir Insomniac City: New York, Oliver, and Me.
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2016· 1 entry
The Guardian: The 100 best nonfiction books: No 12 – Awakenings by Oliver Sacks (1973)
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2015· 5 entries
The Guardian: Oliver Sacks remembered by his nephew, Jonathan Sacks
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The Guardian: Gratitude review – Oliver Sacks leaves an incredible epitaph
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Died 2015-08-30.
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Sacks founded the Oliver Sacks Foundation, a non-profit organization established to increase understanding of the brain through using narrative non-fiction and case histories, with goals that include publishing some of S
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“Original: «If a man has lost a leg or an eye, he knows he has lost a leg or an eye; but if he has lost a self—himself—he cannot know it, because he is no longer there to know it.”
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2013· 1 entry
Awarded Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (2013).
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2012· 1 entry
Serving as a professor of neurology and consulting neurologist in the school's epilepsy centre
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2008· 2 entries
Awarded Commander of the Order of the British Empire (2008).
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Began a friendship with writer and New York Times contributor Bill Hayes
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2007· 1 entry
A post that was created specifically for him and that gave him unconstrained access to the university, regardless of department or discipline
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2006· 1 entry
To commemorate "his 40 years at Beth Abraham and honour his outstanding contributions in support of music therapy and the effect of music on the human brain and mind
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2005· 1 entry
Awarded Emperor Has No Clothes Award (2005).
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2003· 1 entry
Won Bodley Medal (2003).
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2002· 1 entry
Became Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences (Class IV—Humanities and Arts, Section 4—Literature) and he was awarded the 2001 Lewis Thomas Prize by Rockefeller University
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2001· 2 entries
Awarded Lewis Thomas Prize (2001).
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Sacks noted in a 2001 interview that severe shyness, which he described as "a disease", had been a lifelong impediment to his personal interactions.
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2000· 1 entry
Sacks received the Golden Plate Award of the American Academy of Achievement
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1999· 1 entry
Became an Honorary Fellow at the Queen's College, Oxford
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1996· 1 entry
Sacks became a member of the American Academy of Arts and Letters (Literature)
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1993· 1 entry
Awarded George Polk Award (1993).
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1990· 2 entries
The New York Times wrote he "has become a kind of poet laureate of contemporary medicine"
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Starring Robin Williams and Robert De Niro
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1988· 1 entry
Awarded Oskar Pfister Award (1988).
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1974· 4 entries
Awarded Hawthornden Prize (1974).
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For the British television series Discovery
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Published “A simplest systematics for the organization of turn-taking for conversation” in Language — cited 8,798 times.
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A year after the publication of Awakenings, when he fell off a cliff and severely injured his left leg while mountaineering alone above Hardangerfjord, Norway
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1967· 1 entry
Sacks first began to write of his experiences with some of his neurological patients
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1961· 3 entries
Arrived in the United States, completing an internship at Mt
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I declared my intention to become a United States citizen, which may have been a genuine intention, but I never got round to it,' he told The Guardian in 2005
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I declared my intention to become a United States citizen, which may have been a genuine intention, but I never got round to it
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1958· 3 entries
Graduated with Bachelor of Medicine, Bachelor of Surgery (BM BCh) degrees, and, as was usual at Oxford, his BA was later promoted to a Master of Arts (MA Oxon) degree
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Studied at The Queen's College, Bachelor of Medicine, Bachelor of Surgery (1951–1958).
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From The Queen's College, Oxford, before moving to the United States, where he spent most of his career
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1956· 1 entry
Sacks began to study medicine at the University of Oxford and Middlesex Hospital Medical School
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1933· 1 entry
Born 1933-07-09.
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