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Wilhelm Eduard Weber

Wilhelm Eduard Weber , 1804-91, German physicist. He was professor (1831-37, 1849-91) at the Univ. of Göttingen, where he worked with C. F. Gauss on terrestrial magnetism and devised an electromagnetic telegraph. He introduced the absolute system of electrical units. The coulomb was once known as the weber; now the weber is a magnetic unit. With a brother, E. H. Weber , he wrote (1825) a book on wave motion; with another brother, E. F. Weber, he made a study of walking.

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A Dictionary of Astronomy | 1997 | Â© A Dictionary of Astronomy 1997, originally published by Oxford University Press 1997. (Hide copyright information) Copyright

weber (symbol Wb) A unit of magnetic flux. It is named after the German physicist Wilhelm Eduard Weber (1804–91).