# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/ernst-weber
# Generated: 2026-08-13T03:35:39.998Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/ernst-weber"
name: "Ernst Weber"
slug: "ernst-weber"
description: "Ernst Weber, Austria-born American electrical engineer, was a pioneer in microwave technologies and played an important role in the history of the New York University Tandon School of Engineering, where in 1945 he founded the Microwave Research Institute. Weber was also the first president of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) and one of the founders of the U.S. National Academy of Engineering (NAE)."
tagline: "Austrian-American engineer"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United States"
  isoCode: "US"
category:
  name: "Academics"
  slug: "academics"
profileType:
  name: "Academic"
  slug: "academic"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q39631"
birthDate: "1901-09-06"
deathDate: "1996-02-16"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           39.1
  momentum:             3.770346256288843
  historical:           5.671310666666667
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     35
  profileCompleteness:  55
  trendDirection:       "RISING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ernst_Weber_(Ingenieur)"
    title: "Ernst Weber (Ingenieur)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ar.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%A5%D8%B1%D9%86%D8%B3%D8%AA_%D9%88%D9%8A%D8%A8%D8%B1_(%D8%A3%D8%B3%D8%AA%D8%A7%D8%B0_%D8%AC%D8%A7%D9%85%D8%B9%D9%8A)"
    title: "إرنست ويبر (أستاذ جامعي)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%A7%D8%B1%D9%86%D8%B3%D8%AA_%D9%88%D9%8A%D8%A8%D8%B1_(%D8%A7%D8%B3%D8%AA%D8%A7%D8%B0_%D8%AC%D8%A7%D9%85%D8%B9%D8%A9_%D9%85%D9%86_%D8%A7%D9%84%D9%86%D9%85%D8%B3%D8%A7)"
    title: "ارنست ويبر (استاذ جامعة من النمسا)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ernst_Weber"
    title: "Ernst Weber"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ernst_Weber_(engineer)"
    title: "Ernst Weber (engineer)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://he.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D7%90%D7%A8%D7%A0%D7%A1%D7%98_%D7%95%D7%91%D7%A8_(%D7%9E%D7%94%D7%A0%D7%93%D7%A1)"
    title: "ארנסט ובר (מהנדס)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q90248"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump