Oliver Wolf Sacks, CBE FRCP (9 July 1933 รข€" 30 August 2015) was a British neurologist, naturalist, historian of science, and author. Born in Britain, and mostly educated there, he spent his career in the United States. He believed that the brain is the "most incredible thing in the universe.
After Sacks received his medical degree from The Queen's College, Oxford in 1960, he interned at Middlesex Hospital (part of University College, London) before moving to the U.S. He then interned at Mount Zion Hospital in San Francisco and completed his residency in neurology and neuropathology at the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA).
Sacks was the author of numerous best-selling books, mostly collections of case studies of people, including himself, with neurological disorders.
Awakenings (1973) was adapted into an Academy Award-nominated film in 1990, starring Robin Williams and Robert De Niro. He and his book Musicophilia: Tales of Music and the Brain were the subject of "Musical Minds", an episode of the PBS series Nova. Sacks was awarded a CBE for services to medicine in the 2008 Birthday Honours.
Oliver Sacks Net Worth: $100 Million
Per Year: $20 Million
Per Month: $2 Million
Per Week: $500,000
| Per Day: | Per Hour: | Per Minute: | Per Second: |
| $70,000 | $3,000 | $50 | $1.00 |
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