Structure of Haemoglobin: Haemoglobin is an aggregation of four globular proteins (typically two alpha and two beta subunits), each with an embedded haeme group. Each haeme group allows the binding of an oxygen molecule.
Here's another intriguing case from the Guinness World Records. In 1964, a 17-year-old high school student named Randy Gardner beat the world record for sleep deprivation by staying awake for 264 hours (11 days) without using any stimulants.
Best Answer: A good book to read about this is Sleep Thieves by Stanley Coren. He tells a few stories of people who tried to sustain wakefulness. One famous case is the disc jockey Peter Tripp who in 1959 stayed up for more than eight days as a promotional stunt.After a few days, he began to hallucinate, seeing kittens, mice, and cobwebs.n 1964 high school student Randy Gardner (17) attempted to break the Guinness Book of World Records for the longest time awake -- 260 hours. And after 11 days without sleep he suffered no hallucinations or paranoia and no psychotic symptoms. But Coren challenges this often repeated fact in his book.