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ASERINSKY, Eugene (1921 – 1998)

1921 – 1998

1 entries in the GMN corpus.

1953 CE

#12449

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

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, As…