biography
| name: |
Weber, Wilhelm (Eduard)
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pronunciation:
[vayber]
| sex:
| male
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| lived:
| (1804–91)
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| biography:
| Scientist, born in Wittenberg, EC Germany, the brother of Ernst Weber. He was professor of physics at Göttingen (1831–7) and Leipzig (1843–9), then returned to Göttingen, where he directed the astronomical observatory, and was associated with Johann Gauss in his research into electricity and magnetism. He was the inventor of the electrodynamometer, the first to apply the mirror and scale method of reading deflections, and author, with his brother, of a notable treatise on waves. The SI unit of magnetic flux is named after him. |
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