Hans Berger

Hans Berger (21 May 1873 – 1 June 1941) 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."

This article is about the German psychiatrist. For other uses, see Hans Berger (disambiguation).
Hans Berger
Born(1873-05-21)21 May 1873
Neuses, Saxe-Coburg and Gotha, German Empire
Died1 June 1941(1941-06-01) (aged 68)
Jena, Germany
Alma materUniversity of Jena
Known forElectroencephalograms; discovery of the alpha wave rhythm
SpouseBaroness Ursula von Bülow
Scientific career
FieldsPsychiatry
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