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Wilhelm Weber
Born
Wilhelm Eduard Weber

(1804-10-24)24 October 1804
Wittenberg, Saxony, Holy Roman Empire
Died23 June 1891(1891-06-23) (aged 86)
Göttingen, Hanover, Prussia
NationalityGerman
Alma materUniversity of Halle
University of Göttingen
Known forFirst use of c for speed of light
Work on magnetism
Electrodynamometer
Telegraphy
AwardsForMemRS (1850)
Copley Medal (1859)
Pour le Mérite (1859)
Matteucci Medal (1879)
Scientific career
FieldsPhysics
InstitutionsUniversity of Göttingen
University of Halle
University of Leipzig
Doctoral advisorJohann Salomo Christoph Schweigger
Doctoral studentsErnst Abbe
Friedrich Kohlrausch
Eduard Riecke
Other notable studentsGottlob Frege
Arthur Schuster
Signature
Notes
The SI unit of magnetic flux is named after him. He was the brother of Ernst Heinrich Weber and Eduard Friedrich Weber. His father was Michael Weber.
Wilhelm Weber House, 14,15 Schlossstrasse, Wittenberg
Memorial to Wilhelm Weber, Wittenberg Post Office

Wilhelm Eduard Weber (/ˈvbər/;[1] German: [ˈveːbɐ]; 24 October 1804 – 23 June 1891) was a German physicist and, together with Carl Friedrich Gauss, inventor of the first electromagnetic telegraph.

  1. ^ "Weber". Random House Webster's Unabridged Dictionary.

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career, Weber worked with his brothers, Wilhelm and Eduard, and partner Gustav Theodor Fechner. Throughout these working relationships, Weber completed...

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Weber electrodynamics

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19th century. Weber electrodynamics is mainly based on the contributions of André-Marie Ampère, Carl Friedrich Gauss and Wilhelm Eduard Weber. In this theory...

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Magnetic vector potential

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vector potential was first introduced by Franz Ernst Neumann and Wilhelm Eduard Weber in 1845 and in 1846, respectively. William Thomson also introduced...

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Carl Friedrich Gauss

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of the heliotrope in 1821, a magnetometer in 1833 and, alongside Wilhelm Eduard Weber, the first electromagnetic telegraph in 1833. Gauss was a careful...

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List of German physicists

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On Physical Lines of Force

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dielectric constant, and using the results of a prior experiment by Wilhelm Eduard Weber and Rudolf Kohlrausch performed in 1856, he established a connection...

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Bifilar coil

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outside of USB, laptop power supply and HDMI cables. German physicist Wilhelm Eduard Weber made use of the bifilar coil in his 1848 electrodynamometer. Large...

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Speed of light

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Magnetism

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elementary point charges moving relative to each other. Wilhelm Eduard Weber advanced Gauss' theory to Weber electrodynamics. From around 1861, James Clerk Maxwell...

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William Weber

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Ernst Abbe

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1861. While at school, he was influenced by Bernhard Riemann and Wilhelm Eduard Weber, who also happened to be one of the Göttingen Seven. This was followed...

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Needle telegraph

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in 1837 before it could be implemented. Carl Friedrich Gauss and Wilhelm Eduard Weber built a telegraph that was used for scientific study and communication...

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Morse code

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making it the first commercial telegraph. Carl Friedrich Gauss and Wilhelm Eduard Weber (1833) as well as Carl August von Steinheil (1837) used codes with...

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1891

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List of scientists whose names are used as units

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James Prescott Joule

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Matteucci Medal

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List of scientific units named after people

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Alessandro Volta watt (W), power, radiant flux – James Watt weber (Wb), magnetic flux – Wilhelm Eduard Weber biot (Bi), electric current – Jean-Baptiste Biot buckingham...

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Timeline of fundamental physics discoveries

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Hamiltonian mechanics 1838 – Michael Faraday: Lines of force 1838 – Wilhelm Eduard Weber and Carl Friedrich Gauss: Earth's magnetic field[clarification needed]...

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Electromagnetic radiation

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via the above equation. This relationship had been discovered by Wilhelm Eduard Weber and Rudolf Kohlrausch prior to the development of Maxwell's electrodynamics...

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Biomechanics

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brothers Ernst Heinrich Weber and Wilhelm Eduard Weber hypothesized a great deal about human gait, but it was Christian Wilhelm Braune who significantly...

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