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British neurologist and writer (–)

Oliver Wolf Sacks (9 July – 30 August ) was a British neurologist, naturalist, historian of science, and writer.^[2] Born in London, Sacks received his medical degree in from The Queen's College, Oxford, before moving to the United States, where he spent most of his career.

He interned at Mount Zion Hospital in San Francisco and completed his residency in neurology and neuropathology at the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA).^[2] Later, he served as neurologist at Beth Abraham Hospital's chronic-care facility in the Bronx, where he worked with a group of survivors of the s sleeping sickness encephalitis lethargica epidemic, who had been unable to move on their own for decades.

His treatment of those patients became the basis of his book Awakenings,^[3] which was adapted into an Academy Award-nominated feature film, in , starring Robin Williams and Robert De Niro.

His numerous other best-se Oliver Sacks: A Bright Star in the Neurological Sky DUDED