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The tragic death of young and gifted soldiers
Oliver Sacks
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Dying young, one... one thinks of all the soldiers who... who die in war, the numbers are relatively small now. This overwhelmed my... my father, who... who of course... who was born in 1895 and saw his own generation and so many of the most gifted people of his generation, whether they were poets or physicists, wiped out. I know more about scientific history than, you know, perhaps the history of art or literature, and one thinks of... of Moseley, young Moseley, who divined the atomic number of the elements and the rationale of the periodic table, being killed by a shell at Gallipoli, 27-year-old Moseley. I mean this was a... a potential Einstein.
Oliver Sacks (1933-2015) was born in England. Having obtained his medical degree at Oxford University, he moved to the USA. There he worked as a consultant neurologist at Beth Abraham Hospital where in 1966, he encountered a group of survivors of the global sleepy sickness of 1916-1927. Sacks treated these patients with the then-experimental drug L-Dopa producing astounding results which he described in his book Awakenings. Further cases of neurological disorders were described by Sacks with exceptional sympathy in another major book entitled The Man Who Mistook His Wife For A Hat which became an instant best seller on its publication in 1985. His other books drew on his rich experiences as a neurologist gleaned over almost five decades of professional practice. Sacks's work was recognized by prestigious institutions which awarded him numerous honours and prizes. These included the Lewis Thomas Prize given by Rockefeller University, which recognizes the scientist as poet. He was an honorary fellow of both the American Academy of Arts and Letters and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, and held honorary degrees from many universities, including Oxford, the Karolinska Institute, Georgetown, Bard, Gallaudet, Tufts, and the Catholic University of Peru.
Title: The tragic death of young and gifted soldiers
Listeners: Kate Edgar
Kate Edgar, previously Managing Editor at the Summit Books division of Simon and Schuster, began working with Oliver Sacks in 1983. She has served as editor and researcher on all of his books, and has been closely involved with various films and adaptations based on his work. As friend, assistant, and collaborator, she has accompanied Dr Sacks on many adventures around the world, clinical and otherwise.
Tags: Gallipoli, Henry Moseley
Duration: 1 minute, 5 seconds
Date story recorded: September 2011
Date story went live: 02 October 2012
