Eduard Weber

Eduard Friedrich Weber (6 March 1806 – 18 May 1871) [1] was a German anatomist and physiologist.

From 1836 he served as prosector in the anatomical institute at the University of Leipzig, where in 1838 he became privat-docent with a thesis involving physiological studies on the "galvano-magnetic phenomena" in humans.

He assisted his older brother, Ernst, with experimentation involving the inhibitory power of the vagus nerve.

[2] With his brother, Wilhelm, he was co-author of Mechanik der menschlichen Gehwerkzeuge (Mechanics of walking in humans, 1836).

Other noted works by Eduard Weber are: He also published a number of articles in Rudolf Wagner's Handwörterbuch der Physiologie.