Michel Jouvet

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Michel Jouvet
Born	Michel Valentin Marcel Jouvet (1925-11-16)16 November 1925 Lons-le-Saunier, Jura, France
Died	3 October 2017(2017-10-03) (aged 91) Villeurbanne, France
Occupation(s)	Neuroscientist, medical researcher
Years active	1950s–2017
Known for	sleep research
Academic background
Alma mater	University of Lyon University of Paris (Medicine)
Academic work
Institutions	University of Lyon

Michel Valentin Marcel Jouvet (16 November 1925 – 3 October 2017) was a French neuroscientist and medical researcher.

His works, and those of his team, have brought about the discovery of paradoxical sleep (a term he coined^[1]) and to its individualisation as the third state of functioning of the brain (1959), to the discovery of its phylogenesis, of its ontogenesis and its main mechanisms. Jouvet was the researcher who first developed the analeptic drug Modafinil.