Having had some previous experience in transcribing when she was hired in 1963 as a clerk typist at the UCLA Department of Public Health to transcribe sensitivity-training sessions for prison guards, Jefferson began transcribing some of the recordings that served as the materials out of which Harvey Sacks ’ earliest lectures were developed.

Sacks had a large extended family, and among his first cousins are Israeli statesman Abba Eban, writer and director Jonathan Lynn, and economist Robert Aumann.

At Beth Abraham, Sacks worked with a group of survivors of the 1920s sleeping sickness, encephalitis lethargica, who had been unable to move on their own for decades.

For his entire life Sacks has had a condition known as prosopagnosia or face blindness.

In a December 2010 interview Sacks discussed how he had also lost his stereoscopic vision the previous year due to a malignant tumor in his right eye.

" Wyman had a stepdaughter, Terry, by Karger's first marriage to Patti Sacks.

In an article by Gaby Wood published on the first anniversary of Gray's disappearance, Sacks proposed that Gray perceived the taking of his own life as part of what he had to say: " On several occasions he talked about what he called ' a creative suicide.

While Andy Travis received his name and some personality elements from a cousin of Wilson, he was based primarily on innovative program director Mikel Herrington, who also was the inspiration for the character Jeff Dugan in the 1978 film FM, written by Ezra Sacks who had worked at KMET.

While the twins were able to spontaneously generate these numbers, from six to twenty digits, Sacks had to resort to a book of prime numbers to join in with them.

* Oliver Sacks, famous neuroscientist, author of many books including The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat ; although he knew what prosopagnosia was and had studied it, he did not realize he had it until people became shocked that he confused one of his brothers with the other and then, discussing it with family members, learned that a number of them had similar difficulties with faces

Gito had begun recording the 10 tracks and the production was completed by Dave Reynolds and guests including Steve Newman ( Tananas ), Paul Hanmer, Ian Herman ( Tananas ), McCoy Mrubata, Moses Khumalo, Pedro Da Silva Pinto ( 340ml ), Tlale Makhene, Tony Cox, Frank Paco, Nibs Van Der Spuy, Deepak Ram, Rui Soeiro ( 340ml ), Bernice Boikanyo, Paulo Chibanga ( 340ml ), Thuli Mdlalose, Eliot Short, Vusi Maseko and Graeme Sacks.

The Chief Rabbi, Sir Jonathan Sacks, and the head of the London Beth Din, Dayan Chanoch Ehrentreu, responded that, because of what they considered to be Jacobs's heretical beliefs, " they believed that had Jacobs uttered the words ' Our God who gave us the Torah of truth ', he would have made a false statement ".

Sacks ( 1985 ) described a patient who fell out of bed after pushing out what he perceived to be the severed leg of a cadaver that the staff had hidden under his blanket.

In his " Preface to the Second Edition " of the book, Sacks wrote that certain passages in the book had been misconstrued: he had already explicitly criticised cultural and religious relativism in his book, and he did not deny Judaism's uniqueness.

Sacks provoked considerable controversy in the Anglo-Jewish community in 1996 when he refused to attend the funeral service of the late Reform Rabbi Hugo Gryn and a private letter he had written in Hebrew, which ( in translation ) asserted that Gryn was " among those who destroy the faith ," was leaked and published.

A similar stance was taken by Sacks and his Beth Din when they prevented the retired Rabbi Louis Jacobs, who had helped establish the British branch of the Masorti movement, from being called up for the Reading of the Torah on the Saturday before his grand-daughter's wedding.

He moved to the United States as a young man and rose to become an assistant to Emanuel Sacks, vice president of entertainment at NBC, but was fired during a year of recovery from a traffic accident and had to work as a night clerk in a bookstore.

Graham noted that, at the time she and Ramke awarded the prize, she had not yet married Sacks, and that while she had " felt awkward " about the award, she had first cleared it with the series editor, Bin Ramke, who made the actual award.

In 2006, noted neurologist Oliver Sacks published a case study about " Stereo Sue ", a woman who had regained her stereo vision, absent for 48 years, after undergoing vision therapy.

Sacks ' work has been featured in a " broader range of media than those of any other contemporary medical author " and in 1990, The New York Times said he " has become a kind of poet laureate of contemporary medicine ".

Since 1996 Sacks has been a member of The American Academy of Arts and Letters ( Literature ).

Sacks has been awarded honorary doctorates from the College of Staten Island ( 1991 ), Tufts University ( 1991 ), New York Medical College ( 1991 ), Georgetown University ( 1992 ), Medical College of Pennsylvania ( 1992 ), Bard College ( 1992 ), Queen's University ( Ontario ) ( 2001 ), Gallaudet University ( 2005 ), University of Oxford ( 2005 ), Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú ( 2006 ), and Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory ( 2008 ).

A book by the British historian and journalist Meir Persoff, Another Way, Another Time, has argued that " Sacks ’ s top priority has been staying in the good graces of the Haredi, or strictly Orthodox, faction, whose high birthrate has made it the fastest-growing component of British Jewry.

After years of limited starts, Bickle made the full-time jump to Cup in 1998, driving the # 98 Thorn Apple Valley Ford Taurus for Cale Yarborough, replacing Greg Sacks who had been critically injured in an accident at Texas.

Jonathan Sacks, Chief Rabbi of the United Kingdom, regards application of the term " antisemitism " to Marx as an anachronism — because when Marx wrote On the Jewish Question, virtually all major philosophers had expressed similar views, and the word " antisemitism " had not yet been coined, let alone developed a racial component, and little awareness existed of the depths of European prejudice against Jews.

Sacks qualified ninth and defeated pole-sitter Bill Elliott to earn what so far has been his only NASCAR Winston Cup Series victory.

" Sacks objected that Goldman had been quoted saying the products were his " top selling junior line.

His most important book in German Der Aufbau des Organismus ( 1934 ) has been published again in English: The Organism ( 1995 ) with an introduction by Oliver Sacks.

Prior to taking up his current post, Rabbi Sacks was Principal of Jews ' College, as well as rabbi of the Golders Green and Marble Arch synagogues.

Sacks was educated at St Mary's Primary School and Christ's College Finchley, Gonville & Caius College, Cambridge ( MA ), New College, Oxford, King's College London ( PhD ), Jews ' College London and Etz Chaim Yeshiva ( London ).

After the publication of his book The Dignity of Difference, a group of Haredi rabbis, most notably Rabbis Yosef Shalom Elyashiv and Bezalel Rakow, accused Sacks of heresy against what they consider the traditional Orthodox viewpoint ( although many Orthodox Jews and others as well consider the Haredi ' im sector " ultra-Orthodox " rather than merely " Orthodox ," see Haredi article ).

In July 2012 a group of prominent UK Jews criticised Sacks for opposing plans to allow civil marriage for gays and lesbians.

The Chief Rabbi Jonathan Sacks was quoted as being " deeply distressed by missionary tactics specifically targeted against Jews ".

On 13 June 2007 the 350th anniversary of the readmission of Jews to the British Isles was commemorated by a service at Bevis Marks Synagogue in the presence of Chief Rabbi Sir Jonathan Sacks, the Lord Mayor, and Prime Minister Tony Blair.

Sacks served as an instructor and later clinical professor of neurology at the Albert Einstein College of Medicine from 1966 to 2007, and also held an appointment at the New York University School of Medicine from 1999 to 2007.

Paul Alan Cox from the Hawaiian National Tropical Botanical Garden in Kalaheo, and Oliver Sacks from Albert Einstein College in New York, found the bats consumed large quantities of cycad seeds, and-like some eagles, which were shown to build up levels of the pesticide DDT in fat tissue-probably accumulate the toxins to dangerous levels.

* Sacks, Jonathan, The Dignity of Difference: How to Avoid the Clash of Civilizations, London, Continuum, 2002 ISBN 0-8264-6397-5

Oliver Wolf Sacks, CBE ( born 9 July 1933, London, England ), is a British biologist, neurologist, writer, and amateur chemist who has spent the major portion of his career in the United States.

Sacks was the youngest of four children born to a North London Jewish couple: Samuel Sacks, a physician ( died June 1990 ), and Muriel Elsie Landau, one of the first female surgeons in England.

When Sacks was six years old, he and his brother Michael were evacuated from London to escape the Blitz, retreating to a boarding school in the Midlands, where he remained until 1943.

Jonathan Henry Sacks, Baron Sacks, Kt ( born 8 March 1948, London ) is the Chief Rabbi of the United Hebrew Congregations of the Commonwealth.

He took the style Baron Sacks of Aldgate in the City of London.

Chief Rabbi Sir Jonathan Sacks speaking of London said: " It has the courage not to give terror the victory of making us angry and in our anger lose the values that make us what we are.