Hans Berger Quotes

Germany, Scientist
May 21, 1873 – June, 1, 1941.

Hans Berger was a German psychiatrist. He is best known as the inventor of electroencephalography (EEG) (a method for recording "brain waves") in 1924, coining the name, and as the discoverer of the alpha wave rhythm, also known as the "Berger wave".

Also known as Neuroscientist, Religious Leader

The electroencephalogram represents a continuous curve with continuous oscillations in which... one can distinguish larger first order waves with an average duration of 90 milliseconds and smaller second order waves of an average duration of 35 milliseconds.

Hans Berger
- First
- Order
- Waves
In Germany I am not so famous.

Hans Berger
- Famous
- Germany

We see in the electroencephalogram a concomitant phenomenon of the continuous nerve processes which take place in the brain, exactly as the electrocardiogram represents a concomitant phenomenon of the contractions of the individual segments of the heart.

Hans Berger
- Heart
- Brain
- See