| LC control no. | n 50015212 |
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| Descriptive conventions | rda |
| Personal name heading | Sacks, Oliver, 1933-2015 |
| Variant(s) | Sacks, Oliver W. (Oliver Wolf), 1933-2015 Sacks, Oliver W. |
| Associated country | Great Britain United States |
| Birth date | 1933-07-09 |
| Death date | 2015-08-30 |
| Place of birth | London (England) |
| Place of death | Manhattan (New York, N.Y.) |
| Field of activity | Neurology |
| Affiliation | New York University. School of Medicine Columbia University Beth Abraham Hospital Albert Einstein College of Medicine |
| Profession or occupation | Neurologists Medical teaching personnel College teachers |
| Found in | His Migraine: the evolution of a common disorder, 1970: t.p. (Oliver W. Sacks) His A leg to stand on, c1984: t.p. (Oliver Sacks) His A leg to stand on, 1988, c1984: CIP t.p. (author, The man who mistook his wife for a hat) book t.p. (Oliver Sacks) Hallucinations, 2012: t.p. verso (Oliver Sacks, M.D.) p. 3 of jkt. (professor of neurology at the NYU School of Medicine) 678 field information, Aug. 31, 2015 (b. 1933; B.M., B.Ch.; instructor in neurology, Albert Einstein College of Medicine, N.Y. and consultant neurologist, Beth Abraham Hospital, N.Y.) LC database, Aug. 31, 2015 (heading: Sacks, Oliver W.; usage: Oliver Sacks [predominant form], Oliver W. Sacks) New York times WWW site, viewed Aug. 31, 2015 (in obituary published Aug. 30: Oliver Sacks; b. Oliver Wolf Sacks, July 9, 1933, London; moved to America in the early 1960s ("In 1961, I declared my intention to become a United States citizen, which may have been a genuine intention, but I never got round to it," he told The guardian in 2005); moved to New York in 1965; d. Sunday [Aug. 30, 2015], Manhattan, aged 82; neurologist and acclaimed author who explored some of the brain's strangest pathways in best-selling case histories like The man who mistook his wife for a hat, using his patients' disorders as starting points for eloquent meditations on consciousness and the human condition) Dear Oliver, 2024: ECIP title page (Oliver Sacks) |
| National bib agency no. | 0057F9925E |
| Associated language | eng |
| Quality code | nlc |
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