Penny Marshall's 1990 film Awakenings, which was nominated for several Oscars, is based on neurologist Oliver Sacks ' 1973 account of his psychiatric patients at Beth Abraham Hospital in the Bronx who were paralyzed by a form of encephalitis but briefly responded to the drug L-dopa.

The home of Williams ' character was shot not far from Sacks ' actual City Island residence.

Gould was also a guest in all seven episodes of the Dutch talk-series A Glorious Accident, in which he appeared with Oliver Sacks.

* Oliver Sacks – famous neurologist was brought up on the corner of Exeter & Mapesbury Roads in the house where his parents were GPs.

According to Jonathan Sacks, in Shneur Zalman's system Chochma represents " the creation in its earliest potentiality ; the idea of a finite world as was first born in the divine mind.

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.

In September, 2012, Dr. Sacks was appointed clinical professor of neurology at NYU Langone Medical Center, with support from The Gatsby Charitable Foundation.

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.

Since 1966 Sacks has served as a neurological consultant to various New York City nursing homes that are run by the Little Sisters of the Poor, and from 1966 to 1991, he was a consulting neurologist at Bronx Psychiatric Center.

Sacks describes his cases with a wealth of narrative detail, concentrating on the experiences of the patient ( in the case of his A Leg to Stand On, the patient was himself ).

Sacks was called " the man who mistook his patients for a literary career " by British academic and disability-rights activist Tom Shakespeare, and one critic called his work " a high-brow freak show ".

Sacks received the position " Columbia Artist " from Columbia University in 2007, a post that was created specifically for him.

Sacks was appointed Commander of the Order of the British Empire ( CBE ) in the 2008 Queen's Birthday Honours.

In February 2010 Sacks was named to the Freedom From Religion Foundation's Honorary Board of distinguished achievers.

A doctoral disstertaton, " The Necessity of Rebellion: The Novels of Maxwell Bodenheim ," was produced by Arthur B. Sacks at the University of Wisconsin-Madison in 1975.

Among those from whom Gray sought treatment was Oliver Sacks, a well-known neurologist.

'" Sacks added, " I was at pains to say that he would be much more creative alive than dead.

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.

Many years later, Sacks would reveal that he was, in fact, Stephen D.

Inspired by Harold Garfinkel's ethnomethodology and Erving Goffman's conception of the interaction order, CA was developed in the late 1960s and early 1970s principally by the sociologist Harvey Sacks and his close associates Emanuel Schegloff and Gail Jefferson.

MCA was influenced by the work on Harvey Sacks and his work on Membership Categorization Device ( MCD ).

The event was organized by Hugh Herr and John Hockenberry, and featured Oliver Sacks, Michael Graves, Aimee Mullins, Michael Chorost, Susan Hockfield, among other speakers.

Sacks competed in four more events that season, posting a best finish of 17th in the Champion Spark Plugs 400 at Michigan, the only race he finished that year.

After the first four races, his father's team folded. Sacks driving for DiGard in 1985

( Autistic expert Daniel Tammet has suggested that the children Sacks observed may have pre-counted the matches in the box.

Sacks is married with two children.

In 2009 Sacks gave an address claiming that Europeans have chosen consumerism over the self-sacrifice of parenting children, and that " the major assault on religion today comes from the neo-Darwinians.

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.

* Oliver Sacks ( born 1933 ), who wrote the book Awakenings, whose adaptation was filmed at a house similar to his own, but on a different street on the island

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

Greg Sacks ( born November 3, 1952, in Mattituck, Long Island, New York ) is a NASCAR driver.

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

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 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 ).

Sacks had been Principal of Jews ' College, London, the British rabbinical seminary, as well as rabbi of the Golders Green ( 1978 – 1982 ) and Marble Arch ( 1983 – 1990 ) Synagogues in London.

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.

Sacks heads the Chief Rabbi's Cabinet consisting of fourteen other rabbis who advise him on a number of areas, such as Jewish education, Israel, Jewish-Christian relations, matters relating to the Beit Din ( Jewish court ), and several other areas of concern to religious members of the Jewish community.

According to Rabbi Jonathan Sacks, modern Jewish communities and the modern Jewish identity are influenced by antisemitism.

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.

* Rabbi Jonathan Sacks, " Love, Hate, and Jewish Identity ", First Things, November 1997.