Uncle Tungsten memories of a chemical boyhood
Main Author: | Sacks, Oliver, 1933-2015 |
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Format: | Books Print Book |
Language: | English |
Published: |
New York :
Alfred A. Knopf,
2001.
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Edition: | 1st ed. |
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Physical Description: |
337 p. cm. |
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ISBN: |
0375404481 |
Author Notes: |
In 1965, he became a clinical neurologist to the Little Sisters of the Poor and Beth Abraham Hospital. His work in a Bronx charity hospital led him to write the book Awakenings in 1973. The book inspired a play by Harold Pinter and became a film starring Robert De Niro and Robin Williams. His other works included An Anthropologist on Mars, The Mind's Eye, The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat, Uncle Tungsten, Musicophilia, A Leg to Stand On, On the Move: A Life, and Gratitude. In 2007, he ended his 42-year relationship with the Albert Einstein College of Medicine to accept an interdisciplinary teaching position at Columbia. In 2012, he returned to the New York University School of Medicine as a professor of neurology. He died of cancer on August 30, 2015 at the age of 82. (Bowker Author Biography) |