Oliver Sacks was a British neurologist, naturalist, historian of science, and writer who spent most of his career in the United States and is best recognized for treating survivors of the great pandemic of sleeping sickness with then-experimental drug levodopa. He documented his experience in his 1973 book Awakenings, which was adapted into an Academy Award-nominated feature film, starring Robin Williams and Robert De Niro, in 1990. He served as neurologist at Beth Abraham Hospital's chronic-care facility in the Bronx for four decades and was also involved with the New York University School of Medicine, Columbia University Medical Center, and the University of Warwick in the UK. He recorded his vast neurological experience in several collections of case histories such as The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat and An Anthropologist on Mars. He also wrote about music therapy in his best-seller book, Musicophilia: Tales of Music and the Brain.
