# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/moritz-weber
# Generated: 2026-08-12T18:00:29.834Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/moritz-weber"
name: "Moritz Weber"
slug: "moritz-weber"
description: "Moritz Weber (1871–1951), was a professor of naval mechanics at Technische Hochschule Charlottenburg. The dimensionless numbers Reynolds number, and Froude number was coined by Moritz Weber. Moreover, the dimensionless number Weber number was coined after him. Weber was also responsible in coining the term similitude to describe model studies that were scaled both geometrically and using dimensionless parameters for forces."
tagline: "German university professor and engineer (1871-1951)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Prof._Ing_.Moritz_Weber1925.JPG?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "Germany"
  isoCode: "DE"
category:
  name: "Academics"
  slug: "academics"
profileType:
  name: "Academic"
  slug: "academic"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q39631"
birthDate: "1871-07-18"
deathDate: "1951-06-10"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           39.57
  momentum:             16.13207547169811
  historical:           5.670914666666667
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     35
  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "BREAKOUT"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moritz_Weber"
    title: "Moritz Weber"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "موريتز ويبر"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "موريتز ويبر"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moritz_Weber"
    title: "Moritz Weber"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moritz_Weber"
    title: "Moritz Weber"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moritz_Weber"
    title: "Moritz Weber"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q126280"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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