Oliver Sacks, a neurologist and best-selling author who explored the human brain one patient at a time, has died of cancer. He was 82. Sacks was best known for his books The Man Who Mistook His Wife ...

The London-born neurologist died in New York in August 2015 at the age of 82 The writer was previously described as the 'poet laureate of medicine' Celebrated scientist Oliver Sacks, whose bestselling ...

But Oliver Sacks is one of the great modern adventurers, a daring explorer of a different sort of unmapped territory than braved by Columbus or Lewis and Clark. He has gone to the limits of the ...