# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/hans-berger
# Generated: 2026-08-13T06:40:30.712Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/hans-berger"
name: "Hans Berger"
slug: "hans-berger"
description: "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\"."
tagline: "German neurologist (1873–1941)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/HansBerger_Univ_Jena.jpeg?width=1200"
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category:
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profileType:
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birthDate: "1873-05-21"
deathDate: "1941-06-01"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
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  sourceConfidence:     60
  profileCompleteness:  60
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
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  country:  null
  category: null
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump