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Wilhelm Eduard  Weber


 

Wittenberg (Saxony Germany) 24.October.1804- Göttingen 23.June.1891  


      

 
Biographical Notes
 
   

 

Being son of an university university professor of theology,   it grew in a scientific atmosphere.  In 1822 it enters to the university of It has them and it introduces its bachelor in 1826 (1).  It wrote together in a 1824 treaty on the waves to the brother Ernst Heinrich, famous physiologist,   it collaborated with the other brother Eduard Friedrich for the study of the deambulation. In 1828 it approaches the physical chair of the university of Has them, after three years it obtains the chair to Gottiga that must abandon for political reasons (In the 1837 Victoria becomes Queen of the Bretagna its uncle knows them to the throne of Hanover and revocation the liberal constitution   Weber together to others seven teaching ones protests   for the abolition of the constitution) (2).  After some year he is teaching of physical to Lipsia (1843) and in 1849 it buys back the chair to Gottiga.  It collaborated under consideration with Carl Friedrich Gauss of the geomagnetism and to Lipsia it worked on instrumentation for measures electrical workers, in particular for electro a dynanometer for absolute measurements.     In 1850 it becomes member of the Royal Society.   

 
   
 

notes:  (1) from www.treasure-troves.com    di  Eric W.Weisstein-J. J. O' Connor. -E.F. Robertson.
        
(2) from Enciclopedia Microsoft Encarta 1998 voice Weber