Memories of Oliver Sacks, M.D.

摘要

In the last ten years, I have written many obituaries in Mineral News for friends and colleagues in the field of mineralogy. My personal connection with them was always the underlying impetus to put on paper what they meant to me as well as to the science or the hobby. Perhaps it was an attempt to hold on to them just a little longer, for each loss came as an unpleasant and unanticipated surprise. Not so with the passing of Oliver Sacks, as his looming, final breath was well-documented.