The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat

Oliver Sacks

1933–2015 · British neurologist and writer

• Professor at Columbia
• Professor at NYU

Profession

Physician, Chemist, Professor

Worked at

NYU, Columbia, Albert Einstein College of Medicine, University of Warwick

Studied at

Oxford

Prizes

Guggenheim Fellowship, Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (2013), Hawthornden Prize (1974), Oskar Pfister Award (1988), George Polk Award (1993), Lewis Thomas Prize (2001), Bodley Medal (2003), Emperor Has No Clothes Award (2005)

Turned his patients' stories into bestsellers like Awakenings.

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