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Garrison-Morton-Norman History of Medicine

ASERINSKY, Eugene (1921 – 1998)

1921 – 1998

1 entries in the GMN corpus.

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1953

#12449

Regularly occurring periods of eye motility, and concomitant phenomena, during sleep.

KLEITMAN, Nathaniel (1895 – 1999) ASERINSKY, Eugene (1921 – 1998)

Aserinsky, one of Kleitman's graduate students, decided to hook sleepers up to an early version of an electroencephalogram machine, which scribbled across 1⁄2 mile (800 m) of paper each night. In the process, Aserinsk…