Hans Berger, German neurologist and academic (born 1873)

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."