Wilhelm Eduard Weber was a German physicist and, together with Carl Friedrich Gauss, inventor of the first electromagnetic telegraph.
Wilhelm Eduard Weber
Wilhelm Weber House, 14,15 Schlossstrasse, Wittenberg
Memorial to Wilhelm Weber, Wittenberg Post Office
Weber's grave in Göttingen
Johann Carl Friedrich Gauss was a German mathematician, astronomer, geodesist, and physicist who contributed to many fields in mathematics and science. He ranks among history's most influential mathematicians and has been referred to as the "Prince of Mathematicians". He was director of the Göttingen Observatory and professor for astronomy for nearly half a century, from 1807 until his death in 1855.
Portrait by Christian Albrecht Jensen, 1840 (copy from Gottlieb Biermann, 1887)
House of birth in Brunswick (destroyed in World War II)
Caricature of Abraham Gotthelf Kästner by Gauss (1795)
Old Göttingen observatory, c. 1800