Oliver Sacks, neurologist and author, has died

Oliver Sacks, who I remember best for "The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat", had died at age 83.

From Thompson Reuters, reported by the CBC:

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Dr. Oliver Sacks, the neurologist who studied the intricacies of the brain and wrote eloquently about them in books such as Awakenings and The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat, died on Sunday at the age of 82, the New York Times reported. The British-born Sacks, who announced in February 2015 that he had terminal liver cancer, died at his home in New York City, his longtime personal assistant Kate Edgar told the Times.

He was a remarkable clinician and author. I've heard him interviewed more than once on CBC Radio, on both the science program Quirks and Quarks and on the public affairs program Sunday Morning. He will be missed.

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