Eduard Friedrich Weber (6 March 1806 – 18 May 1871) was a German

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and

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. He was a younger brother to physiologist

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(1795-1878) and

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(1804-1891). Weber was born in

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. He studied medicine at the

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, receiving his doctorate in 1829. From 1836 he served as prosector in the anatomical institute at the

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, where in 1838 he became

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with a thesis involving physiological studies on the " galvano-magnetic phenomena" in humans. From 1847 to 1871 he was an associate professor at Leipzig. He assisted his older brother, Ernst, with experimentation involving the inhibitory power of the

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Written works

With his brother, Wilhelm, he was co-author of ''Mechanik der menschlichen Gehwerkzeuge'' (Mechanics of

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in humans, 1836). With Ernst Heinrich Weber, he collaborated on the treatise ''Wellenlehre'' (1825). Other noted works by Eduard Weber are: * ''Disquisitio anatomica uteri et ovariorum Puellae septima a Conceptione the defunctae'', 1830 (graduate thesis). * ''Quaestiones physiologicae de phaenomenis galvano-magneticis in corpore humano observatis'', 1838 - Physiological studies on the galvano-magnetic phenomena observed in the human body. He also published a number of articles in Rudolf Wagner's ''Handwörterbuch der Physiologie''.

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