Hans Helmut Kornhuber was born in 1928 in Königsberg Germany and passed away in 2009. He was a brilliant neurologist and neurophysiologist known worldwide. After his release in 1949 from a Russian prisoner of war camp he studied medicine in Munich Göttingen Freiburg Heidelberg and Basel. He was trained in clinical neurophysiology at the Neurological University Hospital in Freiburg and became full professor of neurology at the University of Ulm Germany in 1966. Lüder Deecke was born in 1938 in Lohe Germany. He studied medicine at the universities of Freiburg Hamburg and Vienna. He received his clinical education at the Neurological University Hospital in Freiburg and at the University of Ulm. Deecke became full professor of neurology and head of the Neurological University Hospital in Vienna in 1985. In 1990 he founded and subsequently chaired the Ludwig Boltzmann Institute for Functional Brain Topography. . Language: English