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, Holy Roman Empire
Died	23 June 1891(1891-06-23) (aged 86) Göttingen, Kingdom of Prussia, German Empire
Resting place	Stadtfriedhof, Göttingen
Alma mater	University of Halle
Known for	Gauss and Weber telegraph (1833) Introducing the notation c (1856)
Father	Michael Weber
Relatives	Ernst Heinrich Weber (brother) Eduard Weber (brother)
Awards	ForMemRS (1850) Copley Medal (1859) Matteucci Medal (1879)
Honors	Pour le Mérite (1864)
Scientific career
Fields	Physics
Institutions	University of Göttingen (1831–1837, from 1849) Leipzig University (1843–1849)
Doctoral advisor	Johann Schweigger
Doctoral students	Ernst Abbe (1861) Eduard Riecke (1871)
Other notable students	Gottlob Frege Arthur Schuster
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Wilhelm Eduard Weber (/ˈveɪbər/ VAY-bər;^[1] German: [ˈvɪlhɛlm ˈeːduaʁt ˈveːbɐ]; 24 October 1804 – 23 June 1891) was a German physicist and, together with Carl Friedrich Gauss, inventor of the first electromagnetic telegraph.