When Sacks returned home four years later, he attended his local grammar and high schools and developed an interest in both chemistry and medicine, at times assisting his mother with dissections during her research. After spending his early years at home, Sacks was sent to boarding school at 6-years-old when World War II began in 1939 to protect him from frequent bombing raids that plagued London. His father, Samuel, was a general practitioner, and his mother, Muriel, was one of the first female surgeons in England. Oliver Sacks was the youngest of four gifted children born into a medical family. Sacks died from cancer on Augat the age of 82. His works include Awakenings, Seeing Voices and The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat. Sacks wrote prolifically about his patients and pathological conditions. He went on to study neurology and became a professor at Albert Einstein College of Medicine. He studied physiology and medicine at Queens College, Oxford. Oliver Wolf Sacks was born in London, England, on July 9, 1933.
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