Oliver Sacks - Honors

Honors

Since 1996 Sacks has been a member of The American Academy of Arts and Letters (Literature). In 1999 he became a Fellow of the New York Academy of Sciences. Also in 1999, he became an Honorary Fellow at The Queen's College, Oxford. In 2002 he became Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences (Class IV—Humanities and Arts, Section 4—Literature) and he was awarded the 2001 Lewis Thomas Prize by Rockefeller University.

Sacks has been awarded honorary doctorates from the Georgetown University (1990),College of Staten Island (1991), Tufts University (1991), New York Medical College (1991), Medical College of Pennsylvania (1992), Bard College (1992), Queen's University (Ontario) (2001), Gallaudet University (2005), University of Oxford (2005), Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú (2006), and Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory (2008).

Oxford University awarded him an honorary Doctor of Civil Law degree in June 2005.

Sacks received the position "Columbia Artist" from Columbia University in 2007, a post that was created specifically for him. In this capacity he gains unconstrained access to the University, regardless of department or discipline.

Sacks was appointed Commander of the Order of the British Empire (CBE) in the 2008 Queen's Birthday Honours.

84928 Oliversacks, a 2 miles (3.2 km)-diameter main-belt minor planet discovered in 2003, was named in his honor.

In February 2010 Sacks was named to the Freedom From Religion Foundation's Honorary Board of distinguished achievers.