Wilhelm weinberg biography
Wilhelm Weinberg (25 December – 27 November ) was a German obstetrician-gynecologist, practicing in Stuttgart, who in a paper, published in.!
Wilhelm Weinberg (–) is a largely forgotten pioneer of human and medical genetics.
Wilhelm Weinberg
German physician (1862–1937)
Wilhelm Weinberg (25 December 1862 – 27 November 1937) was a German obstetrician-gynecologist, practicing in Stuttgart, who in a 1908 paper, published in German in Jahresheft des Vereins für vaterländische Naturkunde in Württemberg (The Annals of the Society of National Natural History in Württemberg), expressed the concept that would later come to be known as the Hardy–Weinberg principle.
Weinberg is also credited as the first to explain the effect of ascertainment bias on observations in genetics.
Hardy–Weinberg principle
Main article: Hardy–Weinberg principle
Weinberg developed the principle of genetic equilibrium independently of British mathematician G.H.
Hardy. He delivered an exposition of his ideas in a lecture on 13 January 1908, before the Verein für vaterländische Naturkunde in Württemberg (Society for the Natural History of the Fatherland in Württemberg), about three months before the Hardy's notes from Apri