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Death and Legacy

Weber never married but often times his sister helped his at home,later in life he had his
niece help him with his daily tasks. He also enjoyed pleasures such as hiking and long walks. He
passed peacefully in the garden of his home in Gttingen, Germany on June 23, 1891. He was
also buried in the same cemetery as two famous physicists Max Planck and Max Born were
physicist who originated quantum theory.

Webers achievements he was honored with the first he was honored with is Fellow
of the Royal Society (1850) Founded in November 1660, it was granted a Royal Charter by
King Charles II as "The Royal Society" this was rewarded to Weber because he was a known
physicians for their new science experiments. Weber then, later received another outstanding
reward called the Royal Society Copley Medal (1859) this is rewarded for outstanding
achievement in research in any branch of science. Weber was granted this award for "For the
investigations contained in his Maas Bestimmungen and other researches in electricity,
magnetism, acoustics. This award alternates every other year one year for physical science the
next for biological science. This metal is the oldest Royal medal still awarded.The First award
was given (1731) to a man named Stephen Gray, for "his new Electrical Experiments. He was
then elected an honorary fellow of Royal Society of Edinburgh (1874).
Toward the end of his life, Weber developed ideas appearing in Zllners Die Principien einer
elektrodynamischen Theorie der Materie (1876).This concept was with all matter compounded

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of electrically charged particles, held together in various stable configurations by the action of
the Weberian law of force. Even gravitation could be subsumed in this unitary picture by
adopting in essence the earlier hypotheses of Aepinus and of Mossotti, that the attractive
electrostatic forces between unlike charges slightly outbalance the repulsive forces between like
charges.

In (1879) he was elected to the American Academy of arts and sciences. In honor of Weber the
magnetic flux was named after him in (1935).Another fact about weber is that he has a crater
named after him on the moon, this crater is located on the side of the moon not visible to earth.

Without Wilhelm's Weber efforts to becoming the founder of the electromagnetic telegraph
we would not have all the sources of communication we have today such as the telephone, the
internet, cell phones, internet,computer. We would not be able to communicate with our relatives
in another state it during the time the telegraph became popular they made it possible to
communicate overseas, we now have that luxury to talk to anyone in the world and we have
Weber to thank for because he was the first co founder physicist that made this possible.

Another invention that he made possible for people to remember him by is magnetic flux without
this finding how the magnetic flux works we would have a lot of unknow questions about our
earth for example the north and south poles there are so many things that are now due to his
discovery of the magnetic flux. This physicist played a huge role in all our lives that he changed
history forever

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