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Wilhelm Eduard Weber

1804 - 1891

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Wilhelm Eduard Weber (; 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

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Wilhelm Eduard Weber has received more than 282,478 page views. His biography is available in 64 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 60 in 2019). Wilhelm Eduard Weber is the 90th most popular physicist (down from 77th in 2019), the 289th most popular biography from Germany (up from 290th in 2019) and the 14th 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 90 out of 851. Before him are Hans Bethe, Victor Francis Hess, Albert A. Michelson, Jean Baptiste Perrin, Clinton Davisson, and Carl Zeiss. After him are Ernst Ruska, Leo Szilard, Peter Higgs, Emil Lenz, Gustaf Dalén, and Aage Bohr.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1804, Wilhelm Eduard Weber ranks 7. Before him are Franklin Pierce, George Sand, Ludwig Feuerbach, Johann Strauss I, Napoléon Louis Bonaparte, and Benjamin Disraeli. After him are Emil Lenz, Allan Kardec, Matthias Jakob Schleiden, Mongkut, Mikhail Glinka, and Nathaniel Hawthorne. Among people deceased in 1891, Wilhelm Eduard Weber ranks 12. Before him are Pedro II of Brazil, Helmuth von Moltke the Elder, Georges-Eugène Haussmann, Sofia Kovalevskaya, P. T. Barnum, and Léo Delibes. After him are Theo van Gogh, Leopold Kronecker, Prince Napoléon Bonaparte, Albert Pike, Ivan Goncharov, and Jules Grévy.

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In Germany

Among people born in Germany, Wilhelm Eduard Weber ranks 289 out of 7,253. Before him are Rainer Werner Fassbinder (1945), Sophie, Duchess of Hohenberg (1868), Frederick V of the Palatinate (1596), Maria Sibylla Merian (1647), Irma Grese (1923), and Carl Zeiss (1816). After him are Ernst Ruska (1906), Wilhelm Grimm (1786), Hans Memling (1435), Sophie Scholl (1921), Martin Behaim (1459), and Otto IV, Holy Roman Emperor (1175).

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Among PHYSICISTS In Germany

Among physicists born in Germany, Wilhelm Eduard Weber ranks 14. Before him are Max von Laue (1879), Hermann von Helmholtz (1821), J. Hans D. Jensen (1907), Johannes Stark (1874), Otto von Guericke (1602), and Carl Zeiss (1816). After him are Ernst Ruska (1906), Joseph von Fraunhofer (1787), James Franck (1882), Julius von Mayer (1814), Arno Allan Penzias (1933), and Ernst Abbe (1840).

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