Psychology Today: How Hans Berger's Irrationality Changed Psychology Forever
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Hans Berger
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".
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science · German psychiatrist (1873-1941) · university teacher · neurologist · psychiatrist · scientist · inventor · also Hans Berger, H. Berger, Prof. Dr. H. Berger, Berger, Gans, Berger
Born 21 May 1873 · Died 1 June 1941 · Q61670
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2023· 1 entry
2022· 1 entry
Published “LAMMPS - a flexible simulation tool for particle-based materials modeling at the atomic, meso, and continuum scales” in Computer Physics Communications — cited 11,920 times.
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2021· 1 entry
However, in part due to Berger's and other namesakes' work's associations with the Nazi regime (e
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2016· 1 entry
Published “Observation of Gravitational Waves from a Binary Black Hole Merger” in Physical Review Letters — cited 11,763 times.
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2005· 1 entry
By Ernst Klee, a German journalist specializing in the exposure and documentation of Nazi medical crimes
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2003· 1 entry
Documenting Berger's invitation by the SS racial hygienist Karl Astel to work for the EGOG (Erbgesundheitsobergericht, Higher Genetic Health Court) in 1941
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1941· 1 entry
Died 1941-06-01.
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1940· 1 entry
Wrote: "It was a case of spontaneous telepathy in which at a time of mortal danger, and as I contemplated certain death, I transmitted my thoughts, while my sister, who was particularly close to me, acted as the recei
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1938· 1 entry
At the retirement age of 65, Berger was made Professor Emeritus in Psychology
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1935· 1 entry
American roboticist William Grey Walter noted that Berger:
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1934· 1 entry
The importance of his discoveries in electroencephalography (EEG) was finally recognized at an international forum in 1937
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1929· 1 entry
Which demonstrated the technique for "recording the electrical activity of the human brain from the surface of the head
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1927· 1 entry
Career landmark: rector of the University of Jena (1927–1928).
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1924· 3 entries
Berger succeeded in recording the first human electroencephalogram (EEG), a term he coined
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Berger made the first EEG recording of human brain activity and called it Elektrenkephalogramm
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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
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1911· 1 entry
And later served as an army psychiatrist on the Western front during World War I
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1907· 1 entry
Career landmark: extraordinary professor (1907).
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1901· 1 entry
Qualified as a senior university lecturer in 1906 and physician-in-chief in 1912, eventually succeeding Binswanger in 1919
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1897· 1 entry
Berger joined the staff of Otto Ludwig Binswanger (1852–1929), who held the chair in psychiatry and neurology at the Jena clinic
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1892· 1 entry
Berger enrolled as a mathematics student at the Friedrich Schiller University of Jena with the intention of becoming an astronomer
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1873· 1 entry
Born 1873-05-21.
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