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Weber, Wilhelm Eduard 1804-91
German scientist

Born in Wittenberg, he studied physics at Hake University, then at Göttingen, where he became Professor of Physics (1831-37). He then became professor at Leipzig (from 1843), and worked with Carl Friedrich Gauss in his researches on electricity and magnetism. He was the inventor of the electrodynamometer, the first to apply the mirror and scale method of reading deflections, and the author, with his brother Ernst Weber, of a notable treatise on waves.