- Frederic A. Gibbs
Frederic Andrews Gibbs (1903–1992) was an American neurologist who was a pioneer in the use of
electroencephalography (EEG) for the diagnosis and treatment ofepilepsy .Gibbs graduated from
Yale and Johns Hopkins in 1929. He was offered a fellowship inneuropathology byStanley Cobb , ofHarvard Medical School . He studiedepilepsy in the same laboratory asWilliam G. Lennox and Erna Leonhardt.Erna Leonhardt was Lennox's technical co-worker and had come to Boston as an immigrant from Germany.ref|Niedermeyer2004 She married Gibbs in 1930 and they formed a research team that would last a lifetime, publishing papers together over the next fifty-odd years.
The electroencephalograph was primitive in the early 1930s, having only one channel. In 1935, Gibbs asked Albert Grass (an MIT graduate) to build a 3-channel EEG. Grass built the machine in his father's basement with the help of his brother. In the same year, Erna and Frederic Gibbs travelled to Europe to attend a conference and visit
Hans Berger , the inventor of the EEG.ref|Zottoli2001In 1944, they moved to
University of Illinois School of Medicine , and Frederic Gibbs was promoted to professor in the epilepsy clinic.The Gibbs published the book "Atlas of electroencephalography" in 1941, with a second edition in 1951. Their book valued the subjective and experienced eye of an electroencephalographer over objective mechanical or mathematical analysis.ref|Jones1998
Frederic Gibbs was jointly (with William Lennox) awarded the
Albert Lasker Award for Clinical Medical Research in 1951.Erna Gibbs died in 1987.
Further reading
*cite journal | author=Stone JL | title=Frederic A. Gibbs, M.D | journal=Surg Neurol | year=1994 | pages=168–71 | volume=41 | issue=2 | pmid=8115957 | doi=10.1016/0090-3019(94)90117-1
*cite journal | author= | title=FREDERIC A. GIBBS, M.D | journal=Cinci J Med | year=1964 | pages=115 | volume=45 | pmid=14126093
*cite journal | author=Gibbs FA, Gibbs EL | title=The Gibbs' Boston years: early developments in epilepsy research and electroencephalography at Harvard. Interview by James L. Stone and John R. Hughes | journal=Clin Electroencephalogr | year=1990 | pages=175–82 | volume=21 | issue=4 | pmid=2225465
*cite news | title=Epileptic Brain Waves | url=http://www.time.com/time/magazine/printout/0,8816,762255,00.html | publisher=Time Magazine | date=1935-04-22 | accessdate=2006-09-05References
*cite news
url=http://www.laskerfoundation.org/awards/obits/gibbsobit.shtml
title=Frederic A. Gibbs Obituary
publisher=New York Times
date=1992-10-23
accessdate=2006-02-24Footnotes
#cite book
title = Electroencephalography: Basic Principles, Clinical Applications, and Related Fields
last = Ernst Niedermeyer, Fernando Lopes Da Silva
year = 2004
month = November
publisher = Lippincott Williams & Wilkins
pages = 8–11
id = ISBN 0-7817-5126-8
#cite web
author = Steven J. Zottoli
year = 2001
url = http://www.grassfoundation.org/about/pdf/history.pdf
title = The Origins of The Grass Foundation
format = PDF
accessdate = 2006-02-24
#cite book
title = Picturing Science Producing Art
last = Caroline A Jones (ed), Peter Louis Galison (ed)
year = 1998
month = June
publisher = Routledge
pages = 334–336
id = ISBN 0-415-91912-6
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