Renowned neurologist and author Oliver Wolf Sacks died

Renowned neurologist and author Oliver Wolf Sacks died on 30 August 2015 in New York, the USA. He was 82.

Compared to his career as a practitioner of neurology and an academician he was better known as the author of best-selling books on the grey matter like Migraine, Awakenings, The Mind’s eye, etc.

Contributions and achievements of Oliver Wolf Sacks

• He received his medical degree from the Queen's College, Oxford of the UK in 1960.
• He was an instructor and later clinical professor of neurology at the Albert Einstein College of Medicine in the USA from 1966 to 2007.
• He worked at the New York University School of Medicine from 1992 to 2007.
• His first book was Migraine (1970).
• His second book Awakenings (1973) gave an autobiographical account of his efforts to help people with encephalitis lethargica regain proper neurological function.
• Among other important works include An Anthropoligist on Mars, Hallucinations and On the Move (his autobiography).
• He was awarded the Lewis Thomas Prize for Writing about Science in 2001.
• In 2008, he was conferred with the Order of the British Empire/Sir (CBE) honour for services to literature.

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