The renowned neurologist and author,Dr. Oliver Sacks, has died at the age of 82. Many people knew him for his best-selling books approximately his patients. Others recall him depicted by Robin Williams in the Oscar-nominated film "Awakenings" based on his novel. And readers of the current York Times saw Dr. Sacks' heartbreaking reflection on his own demise from cancer.Here at WNYC, or we knew him as an inspiration,and a frequent contributor on Radiolab."He is one of our guiding voices since the very beginning," said Radiolab host Jad Abumrad. "His spirit and the way that he sort of infused scientific case studies with a kind of romantic sense of the person and the way he put a tiny bit of mysticism into his science, or that was very much a kind of template which Radiolab could step into."Jad Abumrad spoke with Soterios Johnson approximately Sacks' impact on Radiolab.
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