Frederic Andrews Gibbs (1903–1992) was an American neurologist who was a pioneer in the use of electroencephalography (EEG) for the diagnosis and treatment of epilepsy.
[1] 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.
In the same year, Erna and Frederic Gibbs traveled to Europe to attend a conference and visit Hans Berger, the inventor of the EEG.
[2] In 1944, they moved to University of Illinois School of Medicine, and Frederic Gibbs was promoted to professor in the epilepsy clinic.
Their book valued the subjective and experienced eye of an electroencephalographer over objective mechanical or mathematical analysis.