Oliver Sacks
Neurologist and writer
The first biography I read — I think the first scientific biography — was Madame Curie . And my mother, who was a surgeon, worked at the Marie Curie Hospital. She’d met Marie Curie, who was one of her great heroines. And reading the book, I think, was the first portrait of a scientist and the romance of a scientific life.
Recorded
Academy of Achievement recorded interview, American Academy of Achievement, 17 June 2000
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