The Significance of the 1845 Gauss-Weber Correspondence

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Scientific Paper
Title The Significance of the 1845 Gauss-Weber Correspondence
Author(s) Laurence Hecht
Keywords Gauss, Weber
Published 1996
Journal 21st Century Science & Technology
Volume 9
Number 3
Pages 22-43

Abstract

The 1830's experiments of Carl Friedrich Gauss and Wilhelm Weber to test Amp?re's electrodynamic theory, led to the conception of the electron and atomic nucleus, more than 50 years before their empirical confirmation.