Wilhelm Eduard Weber

Wilhelm Eduard Weber (1804 to 1891) was a German physicist who, together with Carl Friedrich Gauss, invented the first electromagnetic telegraph. Born in Wittenberg, the son of a professor of theology, he became Professor Extraordinarius of Natural Philosophy at Halle, and in 1831 was hired by the University of Göttingen as professor of physics on the recommendation of Gauss. In 1833 he and Gauss built the first electromagnetic telegraph, linking the observatory with the institute for physics in Göttingen. In December 1837 the Hanoverian government dismissed him from his post, as one of the Göttingen Seven, for political reasons.