Wilhelm Eduard Weber
German physicist (1804–1891)
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German physicist who co-invented the first electromagnetic telegraph with Gauss in the 1830s. Weber's name lives on in the unit of magnetic flux—the weber—a parting gift to physics students everywhere.
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Wilhelm Eduard Weber was a German physicist and, together with Carl Friedrich Gauss, inventor of the first electromagnetic telegraph.
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