The following list is highly subjective in that local events are emphasized.
Feel free to suggest relevant
additions or links.
| Aug 13-17 | 12th International Conference on Biomagnetism, Biomag2000, Espoo/Helsinki, Finland |
| Sept 25 | Science prize of the Academy of Finland, worth FIM 300.000 awarded to Prof. Risto Näätänen (First recipient of this newly established award) |
| Sept 25 | Invention prize for the idea of combining TMS and HR-EEG |
| June 17 | Dissertation of Mari Tervaniemi (Opponent: Robert Zatorre) |
| April 14 | Innovation Prize 1997 to magnetic stimulator project |
| February 7 | Dissertation of Minna Huotilainen (Opponent: Olivier Bertrand) |
| January 30 | First Nature paper from BioMag collaboration: Näätänen et al. |
| November 6 | Dissertation of Teija Kujala (Opponent: Helen Neville) |
| November | First exercize MCG measurement |
| October | First study using EEG to record brain activity elicited by magnetic stimulation |
| May | Demonstration that fMRI and MEG activations coincide in the somatosensory cortex |
| April | Replacement of one gradiometer pair in the cardiomagnetometer by a single axial channel, resulting in a 67-channel sensor array |
| April 9 | First combined 122-channel MEG and 64-channel EEG measurement |
| March | 64-channel EEG cap (Virtanen et al.) |
| Nov25 | Dissertation of Eero Pekkonen (includes one study performed at BioMag) |
| Oct 10 | New office space received in Building F |
| Sep 11 | First publication based entirely on recordings at BioMag |
| April 12 | Neuromag 68-channel MCG system complete |
| April 2 | First combined 122-channel MEG and 32-channel EEG measurement |
| Mar 21 | Opening ceremony of the BioMag Laboratory |
| Jan 1 | Graduate School on Functional Imaging in Medicine started |
| Dec 30 | Neuromag 122-channel MEG system complete |
| Dec 22 | First measurement at the BioMag Laboratory (Patient with Alzheimer's disease) |
| Feb 11 | Contract with Neuromag Ltd. signed Contract with Euroshield Ltd. signed |
| 1996 | Neuromag announces their 306-channel neuromagnetometer |
| 1992 | 122-channel magnetometer: first whole-scalp array ( Neuromag Ltd.) |
| 1989 | 24-channel magnetometer (Kajola et al., 1989) |
| 1986 | 7-channel magnetometer (Knuutila et al., 1987) |
| 1984 | 5-channel magnetometer (Williamson et al., 1985) |
| 1983 | 4-channel magnetometer (Ilmoniemi et al. 1984) |
| 1981 | 7-channel experimental magnetometer (Ehnholm, Ilmoniemi and Wiik, 1981) |
| 1969 | First successful MCG measurement without averaging, using a SQUID (Zimmerman, Cohen, Edelsack) [James Zimmerman in Advances of Biomagnetism, p. 70] |
| 1968 | First magnetoencephalogram (David Cohen) |
| 1963 | First magnetocardiogram (Baule and McFee) |
| 1996 | MEG detection of cerebellar activity (Jousmäki et al., Tesche et al., 1996) |
| 1995 | MEG detection of subcortical activity (Tesche, Karhu and Tissari, 1996) |
| Signals from the second somatosensory cortex (Hari et al.; Teszner et al.) | |
| Pain-related cortical signals (Hari et al., 1983) | |
| 1982 | Localization of epileptic foci |
| Muscle-movement-related magnetic fields (Deecke et al., 1982; Hari et al. 1982, 1983) | |
| 1980 | Source identification of auditory evoked fields (Hari et al.; Elberling et al.) |
| 1978 | Somatosensory evoked field (Brenner et al.) |
| Auditory evoked field (Reite et al.) | |
| 1975 | The visually evoked magnetic field (Brenner et al.) |
| 1968 | First magnetoencephalogram (David Cohen) |
| 1974 | Fetal MCG (Kariniemi et al.) |
| 1969 | First successful MCG measurement without averaging, using a SQUID (Zimmerman, Cohen, Edelsack) [James Zimmerman in Advances of Biomagnetism, p. 70] |
| 1963 | First magnetocardiogram (Baule and McFee) |
| 1979 | Magnetoretinogram (Aittoniemi et al.) |
| 1976 | Magnetooculogram (Karp et al.) |
| 1962 | Brian Josephson, as graduate student, discoveres the Josephson effect. For this discovery, he was awarded the 1973 Nobel Prize in Physics. |
| 1957 | Bardeen, Cooper and Schrieffer develop the BCS theory for superconductivity. This work was awarded by the 1973 Nobel Prize in Physics. |
| 1928 | Berger measures the electroencephalogram |
| 1913 | Superconductivity discovered (Kamerlingh Onnes) |
