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Wilhelm Eduard Weber

1804 - 1891

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Wilhelm Eduard Weber ( WEB-er or VEY-ber; German: [ˈveːbɐ] ; 24 October 1804 – 23 June 1891) was a German physicist and, together with Carl Friedrich Gauss, inventor of the first electromagnetic telegraph. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Wilhelm Eduard Weber is the 110th most popular physicist (down from 90th in 2019), the 278th most popular biography from Germany (up from 289th in 2019) and the 15th most popular German Physicist.

Wilhelm Eduard Weber is most famous for his discovery of the relationship between electricity and magnetism.

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Among PHYSICISTS

Among physicists, Wilhelm Eduard Weber ranks 110 out of 851. Before him are Peter Debye, Mikhail Lomonosov, Georges Lemaître, Hannes Alfvén, Dennis Gabor, and Clinton Davisson. After him are Peter Higgs, Ernest Lawrence, Jagadish Chandra Bose, Heinrich Rohrer, Walther Bothe, and Peter Grünberg.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1804, Wilhelm Eduard Weber ranks 4. Before him are Johann Strauss I, Ludwig Feuerbach, and George Sand. After him are Napoléon Louis Bonaparte, Franklin Pierce, Benjamin Disraeli, Mikhail Glinka, Emil Lenz, Allan Kardec, Marie Taglioni, and Mongkut. Among people deceased in 1891, Wilhelm Eduard Weber ranks 11. Before him are Pedro II of Brazil, John A. Macdonald, Georges-Eugène Haussmann, Helmuth von Moltke the Elder, P. T. Barnum, and Herman Melville. After him are Sofia Kovalevskaya, Léo Delibes, Theo van Gogh, Edmond Becquerel, Leopold Kronecker, and Ivan Goncharov.

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In Germany

Among people born in Germany, Wilhelm Eduard Weber ranks 278 out of 7,253. Before him are Leopold von Ranke (1795), Irma Grese (1923), Henry III, Holy Roman Emperor (1016), Ernst Jünger (1895), Herbert Marcuse (1898), and Athanasius Kircher (1602). After him are Wilhelm Pieck (1876), Hans-Dieter Flick (1965), Maria Sibylla Merian (1647), Otto Heinrich Warburg (1883), Karl Weierstrass (1815), and Ferdinand Tönnies (1855).

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Among PHYSICISTS In Germany

Among physicists born in Germany, Wilhelm Eduard Weber ranks 15. Before him are Hermann von Helmholtz (1821), Johannes Stark (1874), Gustav Ludwig Hertz (1887), Georg Bednorz (1950), Otto von Guericke (1602), and J. Hans D. Jensen (1907). After him are Walther Bothe (1891), Ernst Ruska (1906), Joseph von Fraunhofer (1787), Carl Zeiss (1816), James Franck (1882), and Arno Allan Penzias (1933).

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