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Wilhelm Eduard Weber
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Wilhelm Eduard Weber

Author · born October 24, 1804 · died 1891

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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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  1. ~55Received the Copley Medal1859
  2. ~75Received the Matteucci Medal1879

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