He interned at Mount Zion Hospital in San Francisco and completed his residency in neurology and neuropathology at the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA). Born in Britain, Sacks received his medical degree in 1960 from The Queen's College, Oxford, before moving to the United States, where he spent most of his career. Oliver Wolf Sacks, CBE FRCP (9 July 1933 – 30 August 2015) was a British neurologist, naturalist, historian of science, and writer. Physician, professor, author, neurologist Non-fiction books about his psychiatric and neurological patients