Wilhelm Weinberg ( German: Wilhelm Weinberg , 1862 , Stuttgart - 1937 , Tübingen ) is a German doctor who, in 1908, independently of the English mathematician Godfrey Hardy formulated a generalization known as the Hardy-Weinberg Law .
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Biography
Wilhelm Weinberg was born in Stuttgart into a Jewish family. Weinberg studied medicine in Tübingen and Munich and in 1886 received a doctorate in medicine. In 1889, he returned to Stuttgart, where he had an extensive general, as well as obstetric and gynecological practice. In addition to medical practice, he was interested in theoretical issues, founded the Stuttgart Society of Racial Hygiene and was its president. [2]
He spent most of his life studying medical statistics and human genetics , including the problems of studying twins, mutations, and applying inheritance laws to populations . A few years before his death, he left the practice and moved to Tübingen, where he died. His works in the field of genetics and epidemiology were published in German and became widely known outside the Germanic language range only after his death. [3]
Major works
- Weinberg, W. Über den Nachweis der Vererbung beim Menschen. Jahrhefte des Vereines für Vater. Naturkunde in Württemberg, 1908.
Notes
- ↑ 1 2 German National Library , Berlin State Library , Bavarian State Library , etc. Record # 117262455 // General regulatory control (GND) - 2012—2016.
- ↑ Morabia, Guthold, 2007
- ↑ For an assessment of his work on genetics, see Stern, 1962; his studies on the epidemiology of tuberculosis, see Morabia, Guthold, 2007.
Literature
- Morabia A., Guthold, R. Wilhelm Weinberg's 1913 Large Retrospective Cohort Study: A Rediscovery. American Journal of Epidemiology Advance Access published on January 4, 2007, DOI 10.1093 / aje / kwk062. Resume (inaccessible link)
- Crow, JF (1999). Hardy, Weinberg and language impediments. Genetics 152 : 821-825. link
- Stern, C. (1962) Wilhelm Weinberg Genetics 47 : 1-5
- Dorothee Früh: Wilhelm Weinberg (1862 - 1937), Armenarzt und Populationsgenetiker - Anmerkung zu Leben und Werk in: Biologisches Zentralblatt 115 (1996) S. 112-119
- Sarah Atorf: Die nationale und internationale Rezeption der genetischen Arbeiten Wilhelm Weinbergs (1862 - 1937). (2011) Diplomarbeit an der Universität zu Köln