Dr. Oliver Sacks has died. He was 82 years old.
CNN reports that Sacks (pictured, via) achieved great success as both a neurologist and an author. Some of his most popular books include Awakenings (1973), The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat (1985), and Seeing Voices: A Journey Into the World of the Deaf (1989).
Here’s more from The New York Times: “More than a million copies of his books are in print in the United States, his work was adapted for film and stage, and he received about 10,000 letters a year…Dr. Sacks variously described his books and essays as case histories, pathographies, clinical tales or ‘neurological novels.’ His subjects included Madeleine J., a blind woman who perceived her hands only as useless ‘lumps of dough’; Jimmie G., a submarine radio operator whose amnesia stranded him for more than three decades in 1945; and Dr. P. — the man who mistook his wife for a hat — whose brain lost the ability to decipher what his eyes were seeing.”