Wilhelm Weinberg

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Dr Wilhelm Weinberg (1862 — 1937) was a German physician who in 1908 independently of the British mathematician G.H. Hardy, formulated the Hardy-Weinberg principle.

[edit] Biography

Weinberg was born in Stuttgart and studied medicine at Tübingen and Munich, receiving an M.D. in 1886. He returned to Stuttgart in 1889, where he remained running a large practice as a general practitioner and obstetrician until he retired to Tübingen a few years before his death in 1937. Much of his academic life he spent studying genetics especially focusing on applying the laws of inheritance to populations.

[edit] References

• Crow, J.F. (1999). Hardy, Weinberg and language impediments. Genetics 152: 821-825. link
• Stern, C. (1962) Wilhelm Weinberg Genetics 47:1-5