{{Infobox_Scientist
| name             = Wilhelm Weber
| image            = Wilhelm Eduard Weber II.jpg
| caption          = Wilhelm Eduard Weber (1804-1891)
| birth_date       = 
| birth_place      = Wittenberg, Germany
| death_date       = 
| death_place      = Göttingen, Germany
| nationality      = 
| field            = Physicist
| work_institution = University of Göttingen
| alma_mater       = University of Halle
| doctoral_advisor = Johann Salomo Christoph Schweigger
| doctoral_students= Friedrich Kohlrausch
| known_for        = Work on magnetism
| prizes           =
| religion         =  
| footnotes        = He is the brother of Eduard Weber.
}}
'''Wilhelm Eduard Weber''' (October 24, 1804 &ndash; June 23, 1891) was a German physicist.

He was born in Halle in 1815. William had received his first lessons from his father, but was now sent to the Orphan Asylum and Grammar School at Halle. After that he entered the University, and devoted himself to natural philosophy. He distinguished himself so much in his classes, and by original work, that after taking his degree of Doctor and becoming a ''Privatdozent'' he was appointed Professor Extraordinary of natural philosophy at Halle.

thumb|left|Statue of Weber in [[Göttingen]]
In 1831, on the recommendation of Carl Friedrich Gauss, he was called to Göttingen as professor of physics, although but twenty-seven years of age.  His
lectures were interesting, instructive, and suggestive. Weber thought that, in order to thoroughly  understand physics and apply it to daily life, mere lectures, though illustrated by experiments, were insufficient, and he encouraged his students to experiment themselves, free of charge, in the college laboratory. As a student of twenty years he, with his brother, Eduard Weber. These important investigations were published between the years 1825 and 1838. Gauss and Weber constructed the first electromagnetic telegraph in 1833, which connected the observatory with the institute for physics in Göttingen.

Displaced by the Hanoverian Government for his liberal opinions in politics, Weber travelled for a time, visiting England, among other countries, and became professor of physics in Leipzig from 1843 to 1849, when he was reinstalled at Göttingen. One of his most important works was the ''Atlas des Erdmagnetismus'' ("atlas of geomagnetism"), a series of magnetic maps, and it was chiefly through his efforts that magnetic observatories were instituted. He studied magnetism with Gauss, and in 1864 published his ''Electrodynamic Proportional Measures'' containing a system of absolute measurements for electric currents, which forms the basis of those in use. Weber died in Göttingen, where he is buried in the same cemetery as Max Planck and Max Born.

The weber (symbol: '''Wb''') is named after him.

thumb|Wilhelm Eduard Weber, 1856
'''Wilhelm Weber''' (* Wittenberg; † deutscher Michael Weber und der Bruder der Physiologen Ernst Heinrich Weber (1795–1878) und Eduard Friedrich Weber (1806–1871).

==Leben==
Wilhelm Weber wurde als Sohn des Theologieprofessors Michael Weber in der Wittenberger Schlossstraße 10, im Haus mit der Goldenen Kugel geboren. Durch die Ereignisse der habilitierte er sich mit einer Arbeit über die Theorie der Orgelpfeifen.

Nach einer außerordentlichen Professur in Halle folgte er 1831 dem Ruf nach Göttingen (Königreich Hannover), wo er an der Georg-August-Universität Professor für Physik wurde. Er verlor sein Amt am 14. Dezember 1837 zusammen mit sechs weiteren Göttinger Professoren (siehe Göttinger Sieben), als sie gegen die Aufhebung der Verfassung protestierten. Seitdem lebte Weber als Privatgelehrter in Göttingen oder befand sich auf längeren Reisen.

1843 wurde er nach Leipzig berufen, bis er 1849 nach der bürgerlichen Revolution von 1848 in Deutschland auf seine alte Stellung zurückkehren konnte.

In Göttingen war Weber sehr eng mit elektromagnetischen Telegraphen. Dazu verlegten sie zwei Kupferdrähte über die Dächer der Magnetischen Verein.

framed|Wilhelm Eduard Weber

Fundamentale Bedeutung haben Webers Untersuchungen zu elektrodynamischen Messverfahren erlangt, die er in sieben Aufsätzen in den ''Abhandlungen der Königlich Sächsischen Gesellschaft der Wissenschaften'' zwischen 1846 und 1878 vorlegte.