Wilhelm Eduard Weber

Wilhelm Eduard Weber ForMemRS
Portrait of Weber by Gottlieb Biermann, 1885
Born	(1804-10-24)24 October 1804 Wittenberg, Electorate of Saxony (now Germany)
Died	23 June 1891(1891-06-23) (aged 86) Göttingen, German Empire (now Germany)
Alma mater	University of Halle
Known for	Weber electrodynamics Gauss and Weber telegraph c notation Weber (unit)
Father	Michael Weber
Relatives	Ernst Heinrich Weber (brother) Eduard Weber (brother)
Awards	ForMemRS (1850) Copley Medal (1859) Pour le Mérite (1859) Matteucci Medal (1879)
Scientific career
Fields	Physics
Institutions	University of Halle University of Göttingen University of Leipzig
Doctoral advisor	Johann Salomo Christoph Schweigger
Doctoral students	Ernst Abbe Friedrich Kohlrausch Eduard Riecke
Other notable students	Gottlob Frege Arthur Schuster
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Wilhelm Eduard Weber ForMemRS (/ˈveɪbər/;^[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.