Renowned neurologist and author Oliver Sacks has died in New York after a battle with liver cancer.
The London-born academic's 1973 book ‘Awakenings’, about patients who woke up after years spent in a coma, inspired an Oscar-nominated film starring Robert de Niro and Robin Williams.
He wrote several books about unusual medical conditions, including ‘The Man Who Mistook His Wife For a Hat’ and ‘The Island of the Colourblind’.
Between 2007 and 2012, he was professor of neurology and psychiatry at Columbia University in New York.
