To honor Oliver Sacks, the doctor, writer and professor of neurology, psychiatry and the arts at Columbia University, on his 75th birthday, the Committee of Small Body Nomenclature of the International Astronomical Union is presenting him with a citation stating that asteroid 84928 will be known as Oliversacks. The asteroid, discovered in 2003, is about two miles in diameter and orbits the sun every five years. The citation honors Dr. Sacks as a writer whose “descriptions of people confronting neurological challenges such as Parkinson’s disease and Alzheimer’s, and his books about the brain, botany, chemistry, and music, have inspired generations of doctors, patients and readers around the world.”