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Oliver Sacks

1933 - 2015

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Oliver Wolf Sacks (9 July 1933 – 30 August 2015) was a British neurologist, naturalist, historian of science, and writer. Born in London, Sacks received his medical degree in 1958 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). 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 1920s sleeping sickness encephalitis lethargica epidemic, who had been unable to move on their own for decades. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Oliver Sacks is the 1,103rd most popular writer (down from 708th in 2019), the 1,015th most popular biography from United Kingdom (down from 539th in 2019) and the 113th most popular British Writer.

Oliver sacks is most famous for his book the man who mistook his wife for a hat. The book is about various neurological disorders and how they affect the person's life.

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Among writers, Oliver Sacks ranks 1,103 out of 7,302. Before him are B. Traven, Ivan Cankar, Tess Gerritsen, David Grossman, Tony Buzan, and Mori Ōgai. After him are Juan Rulfo, Roberto Bolaño, Publilius Syrus, Roger Zelazny, Alexander Kielland, and Alexander Ostrovsky.

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Among people born in 1933, Oliver Sacks ranks 88. Before him are Waichiro Omura, Henryk Górecki, Tomislav Ivić, Franz, Duke of Bavaria, Yasukazu Tanaka, and Yuri Oganessian. After him are Edward de Bono, Ruth Bader Ginsburg, Walter Kasper, Larry King, Danny Aiello, and Hisataka Okamoto. Among people deceased in 2015, Oliver Sacks ranks 59. Before him are Mathieu Kérékou, Diana Douglas, James Horner, Michele Ferrero, Chantal Akerman, and Udo Lattek. After him are Zhelyu Zhelev, Kenzo Ohashi, Alfred G. Gilman, Chandra Bahadur Dangi, Assia Djebar, and Maureen O'Hara.

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Among people born in United Kingdom, Oliver Sacks ranks 1,015 out of 8,785. Before him are Peter Shilton (1949), Tony Buzan (1942), Reginald Lee (1870), Beorhtric of Wessex (800), David I of Scotland (1084), and Edmund Tudor, 1st Earl of Richmond (1430). After him are Ian McDiarmid (1944), Arthur Cecil Pigou (1877), James Gregory (1638), Godfrey Hounsfield (1919), John of Salisbury (1110), and Freeman Dyson (1923).

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Among WRITERS In United Kingdom

Among writers born in United Kingdom, Oliver Sacks ranks 113. Before him are John Dryden (1631), Robert Graves (1895), Brian O'Nolan (1911), Leigh Hunt (1784), James Thomson (1700), and Tony Buzan (1942). After him are Len Deighton (1929), Diana Wynne Jones (1934), David Lodge (1935), P. G. Wodehouse (1881), Sarah, Duchess of York (1959), and Rosamunde Pilcher (1924).

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