Oliver Sacks, the world-renowned neurologist and ... on their own power and reflected on the power of science." The movie “Awakenings,” in which Dr. Sacks was renamed Malcolm Sayer, endeared ...

35 years ago, however, Williams played the role of Dr. Oliver Sacks in Penny Marshall’s Awakenings and delivered a performance strong enough to stand tall along with his other two famous dramas.

Noted neurologist Dr. Oliver Sacks has found a way to combine two ... Dr. Sacks, played by Robin Williams in the movie "Awakenings," tried using music to arouse the catatonic victims of a rare ...

Oliver Sacks ... has died of cancer. He was 82. Sacks was best known for his books The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat and Awakenings, which became a 1990 feature film starring Robin Williams ...

Those stories and many more, taking the reader to the distant ranges of human experience, came from the pen of Dr. Oliver Sacks. Sacks, 82, died Sunday at his home in New York City, his assistant ...