Oliver Sacks
Oliver
Sack’s glowing resume speaks for itself, not that he needs it to stand out: best-selling
author, physician, professor of neurology at New York University (NYU) School
of Medicine, professor at the United Kingdom’s University of Warwick and a
member of the clinical faculty of Yeshiva University’s Albert Einstein College
of Medicine.
At
the ripe age of 80, this British-American who was born with a natural
propensity for science, still feels like his life is about to begin. Born 9
July 1933, his life-long study and reactions of chemical elements has been
intertwined with his happiness.
Having
written several well-recognized books including Awakenings which was adapted into an Academy Award-nominated film
starring Robin Williams and Robert De Niro. He also authored Musicophilia, The Mind's Eye, and The Man Who Mistook His Wife For A Hat. His other credit include medical case studies of neurological disorders.
Sack
reminisces upon his life with warm fondness and still has no plans of slowing
down. If anything he has speed up. For example, he released Hallucinations (2012), an explanation of
the inner workings of
hallucinations, what they suggest about the brain’s workings, and their influence
on art and culture.
Unquestionably,
he is a modern day folk hero whose journey – still vibrant – touches the lives
of many whether they know it or not.
