| LC control no. | n 85830844 |
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| Descriptive conventions | rda |
| Personal name heading | Kleitman, Nathaniel, 1895-1999 |
| Variant(s) | Kleitman, N. (Nathaniel), 1895-1999 Kleitman, Nathaniel, 1895- |
| Birth date | 1895-04-26 |
| Death date | 1999-08-13 |
| Place of birth | Chișinău (Moldova) |
| Place of death | Los Angeles (Calif.) |
| Field of activity | Rapid eye movement sleep Sleep--Stages--Research |
| Affiliation | University of Chicago |
| Profession or occupation | Physiologists |
| Found in | His Sleep and wakefulness, 1963: t.p. (Nathaniel Kleitman; Dept. of Physiol., Univ. of Chicago) NLM files, 9-25-86 (hdg.: Kleitman, Nathaniel, 1895- ; usage: Nathaniel Kleitman, N. Kleitman, Prof. Kleitman) LC data base, 10-13-86 (hdg.: Kleitman, Nathaniel, 1895-) New York times, Aug. 19, 1999: obituaries (Nathaniel Kleitman, sleep expert, dies at 104; d. Aug. 13, 1999 in Los Angeles) National geographic, August 2018: page 72 (Rapid eye movement, or REM, sleep was discovered in 1953 -- more than 15 years after stages 1 through 4 had been mapped -- by Eugene Aserinsky and Nathaniel Kleitman at the University of Chicago) |
| Associated language | eng |
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