Abstract
On PBS, famously shy Oliver Sacks opens up Whenever a documentary about a scientist comes on TV, the Newscripts gang reaches for the popcorn, as we recently did to learn about the neuroscientist and writer Oliver Sacks. Newscripts got a sneak preview of “Oliver Sacks: His Own Life,” an episode of the PBS series American Masters that will air on local PBS stations. Notably, Sacks joins Albert Einstein and James Watson as the only scientists who have been profiled in the series to date. Many fans of Sacks first learned about him when he was played by Robin Williams in the 1990 movie Awakenings . Based on a book by Sacks of the same name, the movie depicts his 1969 work using l -dopa to treat catatonic patients in a New York City hospital. Long living with sleeping sickness, they woke from their locked-in states, but the transformation was only
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