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Feb 21, 2019 · Ernst Weber, IRE President, 1959, IEEE President, 1963, was a pioneer in microwave technologies and long-time leader of the Polytechnic Institute of New York University (where he was President from 1957 to 1969).
Ernst Weber was a 19th-century German physician who first described the just noticeable difference, the JND, before the work was taken up by his student, Gustav Fechner, another pioneer in experimental psychology. The Weber–Fechner Law highlights how our senses and perceptions aren’t as robust and rational as we might like.
Describes the life and work of E. H. Weber, whose research in neurophysiology, the physiology of the senses, and the constancy of the relative differential threshold laid the foundations for experimental psychology.
