A MAN OF LETTERS: Neurologist and prolific author Oliver Sacks succumbed to cancer on August 29, 2015.WIKIMEDIA COMMONS/MARIA POPOVA
—Oliver Sacks, The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat and Other Clinical Tales (1985)
—The closing line of On the Move: A Life, the 2015 autobiography of neurologist and author Oliver Sacks, who died on August 29. The book was the last he published during his lifetime.
—Jimmy Carter, former US President and head of the Carter Center, an NGO that seeks to stamp out dracunculiasis in Africa, at a press conference announcing his recent metastatic cancer diagnosis. There are currently only 11 cases of dracunculiasis in the world, down from 3.5 million cases in 1986. (August 20)
—Nina Fedoroff, molecular biologist and former Science and Technology Adviser to Hillary Clinton and Condoleezza Rice, writing in Agriculture and Food Security about the importance ...
