Wilhelm Eduard Weber

Wilhelm Eduard Weber was a German physicist, university teacher, and philosopher born in Lutherstadt Wittenberg in 1804. He was educated at the Francke Foundations, the University of Göttingen, and Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg. His professional career included positions at Leipzig University, the University of Göttingen, Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg, and the Göttingen Observatory. He worked in Leipzig and was a member of the Göttingen Seven.

Weber received the Copley Medal, the Cothenius Medal, the Matteucci Medal, and the Bavarian Maximilian Order for Science and Art. He was a member of the Royal Society, the Saxon Academy of Sciences and Humanities, the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences, and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. His notable works include *Traité d'ostéologie et de syndesmologie*, *Resultate [aus den beobachtungen des Magnetischen vereins*, *Wilhelm Weber's Werke*, *Principien Einer Elektrodynamischen Theorie der Materie*, and *Wellenlehre auf Experimente gegrundet..*. He studied under Johann Schweigger and advised doctoral students including Eduard Riecke, Friedrich Kohlrausch, Ernst Abbe, and Theodor Reye. Gottlob Frege was also his student. He died in Göttingen on 1891-06-23 and is buried in Göttingen City Cemetery.