BIOLOGIST

Wilhelm Weinberg

1862 - 1937

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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. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Wilhelm Weinberg is the 767th most popular biologist (down from 744th in 2019), the 4,346th most popular biography from Germany (up from 4,627th in 2019) and the 159th most popular German Biologist.

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Among BIOLOGISTS

Among biologists, Wilhelm Weinberg ranks 767 out of 1,097. Before him are Bertha Lutz, Adam Lonicer, Tomitaro Makino, John Ellis, George Prideaux Robert Harris, and Hwang Woo-suk. After him are Otto von Münchhausen, Emmanuel Drake del Castillo, David Don, Robert Ridgway, C. B. van Niel, and Mary F. Lyon.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1862, Wilhelm Weinberg ranks 118. Before him are Edward Granville Browne, Florence Bascom, Ida B. Wells, Robert Emden, Tomitaro Makino, and Mirza Alakbar Sabir. After him are Anastasios Metaxas, Fernand Courty, Stanisław Narutowicz, Mary Proctor, Hermann Gunkel, and Hulda Garborg. Among people deceased in 1937, Wilhelm Weinberg ranks 133. Before him are Jean de Brunhoff, Alexander Chayanov, Victor Laloux, Robert Borden, Alfred Abel, and Walter Burley Griffin. After him are Anastasios Metaxas, Clarence Clark, Juan Campisteguy, Bolesław Leśmian, Paul Bekker, and Prosper Poullet.

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In Germany

Among people born in Germany, Wilhelm Weinberg ranks 4,348 out of 7,253. Before him are Walter Braunfels (1882), Nicolaus von Amsdorf (1483), Karl Allmendinger (1891), Eleonore Wilhelmine of Anhalt-Köthen (1696), Bill Brandt (1904), and Erna Berger (1900). After him are Wolfgang Hildesheimer (1916), Marco Rose (1976), Carl Goßler (1885), Arthur Tell Schwab (1896), Anna Maria of Mecklenburg-Schwerin (1627), and Hans Carl Friedrich von Mangoldt (1854).

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Among BIOLOGISTS In Germany

Among biologists born in Germany, Wilhelm Weinberg ranks 159. Before him are Amalie Dietrich (1821), Hugo von Mohl (1805), Wilhelm Gerhard Walpers (1816), Karl Theodor Ernst von Siebold (1804), Erwin Stresemann (1889), and Adam Lonicer (1528). After him are Otto von Münchhausen (1716), Karl Moritz Schumann (1851), Karl Julius Perleb (1794), Eduard Oscar Schmidt (1823), Eduard von Martens (1831), and Friedrich August Marschall von Bieberstein (1768).

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