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.

Biography

Weinberg was born in Studfart and studied medicine at Tübingen and Munich, receiving an M.D. in 1886. He returned to Stuttgart in 1889, where he remained until he retired to Tübingen a few years before his death in 1937.

References

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