John Bates (neurophysiologist)

John Alexander Vincent Bates (1918-1993) was an English neurophysiologist based at the National Hospital for Nervous Diseases from 1946 until his retirement.

[1] He became the chief electroencephalographer at the hospital, studying human EEG in relation to voluntary movement.

In 1949 he founded the Ratio Club, a dining club of British scientists interested in cybernetics.

[2] Papers relating to Bates and the Ratio Club are held at the Wellcome Library.

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