Background
He was the son of a dentist of Russian–Jewish descent.
physician university professor
He was the son of a dentist of Russian–Jewish descent.
University of Chicago.
He made the discovery after hours spent studying the eyelids of sleeping subjects. Aserinsky and Kleitman pioneered procedures that have now been used with thousands of volunteers using the electroencephalograph. Because of these discoveries, Aserinsky and Kleitman are generally considered the founders of modern sleep research.
Eugene Aserinsky died on July 22, 1998, when his car hit a tree north of San Diego.
An autopsy was inconclusive about the cause of the accident, but raised the possibility that it had resulted from him having fallen asleep at the wheel. He was 77 and lived in Escondido, California.