Mathematician:Wilhelm Weinberg

Mathematician

German obstetrician-gynecologist who expressed the concept that would later come to be known as the Hardy-Weinberg Principle.

Nationality

German

History

• Born: 25 December 1862 in Stuttgart, Kingdom of Württemberg (now Germany)
• Died: 27 November 1937 in Tübingen

Theorems and Definitions

• With Godfrey Harold Hardy:
  • Hardy-Weinberg Ratio
  • Hardy-Weinberg Law (also known as Hardy-Weinberg Principle)
  • Hardy-Weinberg Equation
  • Hardy-Weinberg Equilibrium

Results named for Wilhelm Weinberg can be found here.

Definitions of concepts named for Wilhelm Weinberg can be found here.

Publications

• 1908: Über den Nachweis der Vererbung beim Menschen (in Jahresheft des Vereins für vaterländische Naturkunde in Württemberg)
• 1913: Die Kinder der Tuberkulösen