Wilhelm Eduard Weber

Wilhelm Eduard Weber
Portrait of Weber by Gottlieb Biermann, 1885
Born	(1804-10-24)24 October 1804 Wittenberg, Electorate of Saxony, Holy Roman Empire
Died	23 June 1891(1891-06-23) (aged 86) Göttingen, Kingdom of Prussia, German Empire
Resting place	Stadtfriedhof, Göttingen
Education	University of Halle (PhD)
Known for	Gauss and Weber telegraph (1833) Weber electrodynamics (1848) Introducing the notation c (1856)
Father	Michael Weber [de]
Relatives	Ernst Heinrich Weber (brother) Eduard Weber (brother)
Awards	ForMemRS (1850) Copley Medal (1859) Matteucci Medal (1879)
Scientific career
Fields	Electromagnetism
Institutions	University of Halle (1827–1831) University of Göttingen (1831–1837, from 1849) University of Leipzig (1843–1849)
Thesis	Leges oscillationis oriundae si duo corpora diversa celeritate oscillantia ita conjunguntur ut oscillare non possint nisi simul et synchronice exemplo illustratae tuborum linguatorum (1827)
Doctoral advisor	Johann Schweigger[1]
Doctoral students	Ernst Abbe (1861)[1] Theodor Reye (1861)[1] Friedrich Kohlrausch (1863) Eduard Riecke (1871)[1]
Other notable students	Gottlob Frege[2] Arthur Schuster[1]
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Wilhelm Eduard Weber (/ˈwɛbər/ WEB-er or /ˈveɪbər/ VEY-ber;^[3] German: [ˈveːbɐ] ^ⓘ; 24 October 1804 – 23 June 1891) was a German physicist and, together with Carl Friedrich Gauss, inventor of the first electromagnetic telegraph.