Top 3 Quotes & Sayings by Hans Berger

Explore popular quotes and sayings by a German scientist Hans Berger.

Last updated on December 23, 2024.

Hans Berger was a German psychiatrist. He is best known as the inventor of electroencephalography (EEG) in 1924, which is a method used for recording the electrical activity of the brain, commonly described in terms of brainwaves, and as the discoverer of the alpha wave rhythm which is a type of brainwave. Alpha waves have been eponymously referred to as the "Berger wave."

German - Scientist | May 21, 1873 - June 1, 1941

Source: Wikipedia

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

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

In Germany I am not so famous.

Hans Berger

Top 3 Quotes & Sayings by Hans Berger

Related Authors