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Wilhelm Eduard Weber
Wilhelm Eduard Weber was a German physicist and, together with Carl Friedrich Gauss, inventor of the first electromagnetic telegraph.
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Born 4 October 1804 · Died 23 June 1891 · Q76707
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2026· 3 entries
“but in the war after the next war, sure as Hell, they”
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“one professor would have been quite enough.”
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2019· 1 entry
Published “Reproducible, interactive, scalable and extensible microbiome data science using QIIME 2” in Nature Biotechnology — cited 21,040 times.
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2018· 2 entries
Published “Minimal information for studies of extracellular vesicles 2018 (MISEV2018): a position statement of the International Society for Extracellular Vesicles and update of the MISEV2014 guidelines” in Journal of Extracellular Vesicles — cited 9,690 times.
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Published “2018 ESC/ESH Guidelines for the management of arterial hypertension” in European Heart Journal — cited 8,317 times.
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2012· 1 entry
Published “Multidrug-resistant, extensively drug-resistant and pandrug-resistant bacteria: an international expert proposal for interim standard definitions for acquired resistance” in Clinical Microbiology and Infection — cited 11,617 times.
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2010· 1 entry
Published “Improved Survival with Ipilimumab in Patients with Metastatic Melanoma” in New England Journal of Medicine — cited 13,001 times.
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2009· 1 entry
Published “Introducing mothur: Open-Source, Platform-Independent, Community-Supported Software for Describing and Comparing Microbial Communities” in Applied and Environmental Microbiology — cited 19,004 times.
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2003· 1 entry
Published “Geant4—a simulation toolkit” in Nuclear Instruments and Methods in Physics Research Section A: Accelerators, Spectrometers, Detectors and Associated Equipment — cited 21,347 times.
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2002· 1 entry
Published “Mutations of the BRAF gene in human cancer” in Nature — cited 8,644 times.
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2001· 1 entry
Published “Room-Temperature Ultraviolet Nanowire Nanolasers” in Science — cited 8,390 times.
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1969· 1 entry
Published “The Reliability of Molecular Weight Determinations by Dodecyl Sulfate-Polyacrylamide Gel Electrophoresis” in Journal of Biological Chemistry — cited 15,824 times.
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1950· 1 entry
“The Laws of Science and the Laws of Ethics”
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1949· 1 entry
“Einstein's Reply to Criticisms”
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1940· 1 entry
“The Fundamentals of Theoretical Physics,”
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1935· 1 entry
“Greatest Living Mathematician Failed in Mathematics”
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1934· 3 entries
“Notes on the Origin of the General Theory of Relativity”
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“Europe’s Danger—Europe’s Hope”
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“On the Method of Theoretical Physics”
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1929· 1 entry
“I can understand your aversion to the use of the term”
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1926· 1 entry
“In continuation of Pope on Newton”
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1921· 1 entry
“My First Impression of the U.S.A.”
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1891· 1 entry
Died 1891-06-23.
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1879· 2 entries
Won Cothenius Medal (1879).
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Won Matteucci Medal (1879).
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1864· 1 entry
Awarded Pour le Mérite for Sciences and Arts order (1864).
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1859· 2 entries
Awarded Bavarian Maximilian Order for Science and Art (1859).
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Won Copley Medal (1859).
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1855· 1 entry
With Rudolf Kohlrausch (1809–1858), he demonstrated that the ratio of electrostatic to electromagnetic units produced a number that matched the speed of light
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1850· 1 entry
Awarded Foreign Member of the Royal Society (1850).
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1846· 1 entry
Awarded honorary member of the Physics Association (Frankfurt am Main, Germany) (1846).
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1833· 1 entry
Which connected the observatory with the institute for physics in Göttingen
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1831· 1 entry
On the recommendation of Carl Friedrich Gauss, he was hired by the University of Göttingen as professor of physics, at the age of twenty-seven
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1826· 1 entry
Studied at Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg (1822–1826).
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1822· 1 entry
Studied at Francke Foundations (1821–1822).
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1817· 1 entry
His father was transferred to the university in Halle
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1804· 1 entry
Born 1804-10-04.
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