Nathaniel Kleitman
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| Nathaniel Kleitman | |
|---|---|
| Born | 26 April 1895 Kishinev, Bessarabia Governorate, Russian Empire |
| Died | 13 August 1999 (104) Los Angeles, California |
| Nationality | Russian; American (nat. 1918) |
| Alma mater | College of the City of New York (B.S., 1919); Columbia University (A.M., 1920); University of Chicago (Ph.D., 1923) |
Nathaniel Kleitman (April 26, 1895 - August 13, 1999) was a Russian-born American physiologist and hypnologist, noted generally as the "father of sleep research" and the "first scholar of sleep."
Selected Bibliography
- Kleitman, Nathaniel (1923), Studies on the Physiology of Sleep, Chicago: University of Chicago Press
- Kleitman, Nathaniel; Mullin, F. J.; Cooperman, N. R.; Titelbaum, S. (1937), Sleep Characteristics: How They Vary and React to Changing Conditions in the Group and the Individual, Chicago: University of Chicago Press — "supported in part by contributions from [The Wander Company] which manufactures Ovaltine," per JAMA.[1]
- Kleitman, Nathaniel (1939), Sleep and Wakefulness as Alternating Phases in the Cycle of Existence, Chicago: University of Chicago Press
- Kleitman, Nathaniel; Kleitman, Hortense (Jun. 1953), "The Sleep-Wakefulness Pattern in the Arctic", The Scientific Monthly 76 (6): 349-356
- Aserinsky, Eugene; Kleitman, Nathaniel (4 Sep. 1953), "Regularly Occurring Periods of Eye Motility, and Concomitant Phenomena, During Sleep", Science 118 (3062): 273-274
- Aserinsky, Eugene; Kleitman, Nathaniel (1 Jul. 1955), "Two Types of Ocular Motility Occurring in Sleep", Journal of Applied Physiology 8 (1)
Reading
- Siegel, J. M., A Tribute to Nathaniel Kleitman, npi.ucla.edu/sleepresearch, https://web.archive.org/web/20020812031535/http://www.npi.ucla.edu/sleepresearch/Kleitman/Kleitman.htm
- Nathaniel Kleitman, PhD, 1895-1999, uchicagomedicine.org, 16 Aug. 1999, https://www.uchicagomedicine.org/forefront/news/nathaniel-kleitman-phd-1895-1999