Wilhelm Eduard Weber

1804 - 1891

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Weber developed sensitive magnetometers, worked on the ratio between the electrodynamic and electrostatic units of charge, worked in electrodynamics and the electrical structure of matter. He collaborated with Gauss.
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  1. A comment from Thomas Hirst's diary

Honours awarded to Wilhelm Weber
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Fellow of the Royal Society1850
Royal Society Copley Medal1859
Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh1874
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