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Oliver Sacks
| American neurologist and neuropsychologist Date of Birth: 09.07.1933 Country: USA |
Content:
- Early Life and Education
- Medical Career
- Writings
- Personal Life
- Later Years and Legacy
Early Life and Education
Oliver Sacks was born in 1933 in London, England, to a Jewish family.
His parents, Muriel Elsie Landau and Samuel Eliezer Sacks, were both physicians. He was the youngest of four children and had several notable cousins, including Israeli Foreign Minister Abba Eban, actor and director Jonathan Lynn, and mathematician Robert Aumann.
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His father's family originated from Lithuania, while his mother's was from Belarus.
Sacks earned his medical degree from Oxford University in 1958. He moved to Canada and then to the United States in 1960. He became a naturalized American citizen in 1965.
Medical Career
Sacks was a neurologist and neuropsychologist.
He was a professor of neurology at the Albert Einstein College of Medicine and an adjunct professor o