Richard Caton, of Liverpool, England, was a British physician, physiologist and Lord Mayor of Liverpool who was crucial in discovering the electrical nature of the brain and laid the groundwork for Hans Berger to discover alpha wave activity in the human brain.
- Occupation
- physician, surgeon, physiologist, neuroscientist
- Citizenship
- United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland
- Born
- 1842, July 26, 1842
- Died
- 1926, January 2, 1926