Ernst Heinrich Weber

Ernst Heinrich Weber
Ernst Heinrich Weber
Born	June 24, 1795 Wittenberg
Died	January 26, 1878
Nationality	German
Fields	physician
Known for	experimental psychology

Ernst Heinrich Weber (Wittenberg, June 24, 1795 – January 26, 1878) was a German physician who is considered a founder of experimental psychology.

Weber studied medicine at Wittenberg University. In 1818 he was appointed Associate Professor of comparative anatomy at Leipzig University, where he was made a Fellow Professor of anatomy and physiology in 1821.

Around 1860 Weber worked with Gustav Fechner on psychophysics, during which time he formulated Weber's Law.

In 1866 Weber retired as professor of physiology and also as professor of anatomy in 1871. Around this time he and his brother, Eduard Friedrich Weber, discovered the inhibitory power of the vagus nerve.

Works

Chief works:

Anatomia comparata nervi sympathici (1817)
De aure et auditu hominis et animalium (1820)
Tractatus de motu iridis (1821)
Wellenlehre (1825)

Joint works with his brothers Wilhelm Eduard Weber and Eduard Friedrich Weber:

Zusätze zur Lehre vom Bau und von der Verrichtung der Geschlechtsorgane (1846)
Die Lehre vom Tastsinn und Gemeingefühl (185l)
Annotationes anatomicae et physiologicae (1851)

References

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Huizing, E H (1973), "The early descriptions of the so-called tuning fork tests of Weber and Rinne. I. The "Weber test" and its first description by Schmalz.", ORL J. Otorhinolaryngol. Relat. Spec. 35 (5): 278-82, PMID:4584086, http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/4584086
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Zakrzewski, A (1979), "[Ernst Heinrich Weber--a researcher in psychophysics and the physiology of the nervous system", Otolaryngologia polska. The Polish otolaryngology 33 (1): 84, 110, PMID:375161, http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/375161
Bickerton, R C; Barr, G S (1987), "The origin of the tuning fork.", Journal of the Royal Society of Medicine 80 (12): 771-3, 1987 Dec, PMID:3323515, http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/3323515
Ross, H E (1995), "Weber then and now.", Perception 24 (6): 599-602, PMID:7478901, http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/7478901
Hildebrand, Reinhard (2005), "["... that progress in anatomy is most likely to occur when its problems include the study of growth and function, as well as of structure". about the anatomy and physiology of Ernst Heinrich Weber (794-1878 and Wilhelm His (1831-1904) his successor in the department of anatomy at the University of Leipzig", Ann. Anat. 187 (5-6): 439-59, 2005 Nov, PMID:16320825, http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/16320825
"Short biography of Ernst Heinrich Weber". Retrieved on 2007-11-09.