Mathematician:Wilhelm Eduard Weber

Mathematician

German physicist who invented the first electromagnetic telegraph with Carl Friedrich Gauss.

Younger brother of Ernst Heinrich Weber ($\text {1795}$ – $\text {1878}$), and elder brother of Eduard Friedrich Weber ($\text {1806}$ – $\text {1871}$).

Not to be confused with either the physicist Heinrich Friedrich Weber ($\text {1843}$ – $\text {1912}$, or the mathematician Heinrich Martin Weber ($\text {1842}$ – $\text {1913}$).

Nationality

German

History

• Born: 4 October 1804 in Wittenberg, Saxony (now Germany)
• 1814: Left Wittenberg after the city fell to the Prussians, moved to Halle
• 1822: Entered the University of Halle
• 1831: Hired by the university of Göttingen as professor of physics, on the recommendation of Carl Friedrich Gauss
• 1833: Constructed the first electromagnetic telegraph with Gauss
• 1837: Expelled from his post for being one of the Göttingen Seven who rebelled against the new King
• 1843 -- 1849: Professor of physics in Leipzig
• Died: 23 June 1891 in Göttingen, Germany

Theorems and Definitions

• Weber (Unit)

Definitions of concepts named for Wilhelm Eduard Weber can be found here.

Publications

• 1825: Wellenlehre auf Experimente gegründet (with Ernst Heinrich Weber)
• 1840: Atlas Des Erdmagnetismus: Nach Den Elementen Der Theorie Entworfen (with Carl Friedrich Gauss)
• 1836: Mechanik der menschlichen Gehwerkzenge (with Eduard Friedrich Weber)
• 1846: Elektrodynamische Massenbestimmungen

Sources

• John J. O'Connor and Edmund F. Robertson: "Wilhelm Eduard Weber": MacTutor History of Mathematics archive

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