Catholic University of Peru / Queen’s College / Oxford University / University of Warwick / Mt. Zion Hospital / Karolinska Institute / Columbia University Medical Center / Rockefeller University / Beth Abraham Hospital / /
UCLA / Queen’s College / Columbia University / Catholic University of Peru / NYU Comprehensive Epilepsy Center / Alfred P. Sloan Foundation / Mt. Zion Hospital in San Francisco / NYU School of Medicine / Guggenheim Foundation / American Academy of Arts and Sciences / Columbia University Medical Center / Rockefeller University / Karolinska Institute / Georgetown / Beth Abraham Hospital / University of Warwick / Oxford University / American Academy of Arts and Letters / /
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Robert De Niro / Harold Pinter / Oliver Sacks / Robin Williams / Biography Oliver Sacks / /
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general practitioner / Professor of Neurology / Artist / Anthropologist / Professor of Neurology and Psychiatry / consulting neurologist / poet / surgeon / scientist / visiting professor / practicing neurologist / /
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Alaska / /
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The New York Times / the New Yorker / the New York Review of Books / /
Biography Oliver Sacks, MD, FRCP Oliver Sacks was born in 1933 in London, England, into a family of physicians and scientists (his mother was a surgeon and his father a general practitioner). He earned his medical degree