He was recruited to a faculty position at UC Berkeley but left after one year to join Princeton's psychology department, where he remained for his entire career, rising to full professor in 1941.
He soon made contact with researchers at Bell Telephone Laboratories who were able to provide him with necessary electrical equipment: sound-level meters, amplifiers, and audio oscillators.
At Princeton, in an early achievement of note, Wever and Charles Bray discovered that electrodes wrapped around the exposed auditory nerve of a (sedated) cat could transmit through a telephone wire an understandable replica of conversation in the room.
Wever and Bray subsequently recorded true action potentials, resulting in, among other discoveries, the now-accepted volley theory of frequency coding.
Wever's 1949 book, "Theory of Hearing"[3] became a primary source of information for generations of acoustic investigators.