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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

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Wilhelm Weinberg has received more than 88,587 page views. His biography is available in 15 different languages on Wikipedia. Wilhelm Weinberg is the 771st most popular biologist, the 4,338th most popular biography from Germany and the 154th most popular German Biologist.

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Among BIOLOGISTS

Among biologists, Wilhelm Weinberg ranks 771 out of 841. Before him are Palisot de Beauvois, George Arnott Walker-Arnott, Friedrich Gottlieb Bartling, José Antonio Pavón Jiménez, Sam Harris, and Amalie Dietrich. After him are Carl Friedrich Wilhelm Claus, Lilian Gibbs, Robert May, Baron May of Oxford, Thomas Thomson, Richard Anthony Salisbury, and Bunzō Hayata.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1862, Wilhelm Weinberg ranks 124. Before him are Hermann Gunkel, M. R. James, Hulda Garborg, Jules Renkin, Anastasios Metaxas, and Adolf Bartels. After him are Semyon Nadson, Antoni Lange, Billy Hughes, Andrew Fisher, Robert Emden, and Gustav von Seyffertitz. Among people deceased in 1937, Wilhelm Weinberg ranks 140. Before him are Dashdorjiin Natsagdorj, Colin Clive, F. C. S. Schiller, Antônio Parreiras, Anastasios Metaxas, and Juan Campisteguy. After him are Colin Campbell Cooper, R. J. Mitchell, William Gillette, Nygmet Nurmakov, Gyula Juhász, and Harry Vardon.

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In Germany

Among people born in Germany, Wilhelm Weinberg ranks 4,338 out of 6,142. Before him are Kristin Otto (1966), Oliver Masucci (1968), Amalie Dietrich (1821), Dieter Herzog (1946), Jörg Michael (1963), and Fritz Herkenrath (1928). After him are Carl Friedrich Wilhelm Claus (1835), Günther Jauch (1956), Wolfgang Hofmann (1941), Peter Fleischmann (1937), Hans Nowak (1937), and Natja Brunckhorst (1966).

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Among BIOLOGISTS In Germany

Among biologists born in Germany, Wilhelm Weinberg ranks 154. Before him are Hermann Harms (1870), Johann Jakob Kaup (1803), Johann Friedrich Klotzsch (1805), Rodolfo Amando Philippi (1808), Friedrich Gottlieb Bartling (1798), and Amalie Dietrich (1821). After him are Carl Friedrich Wilhelm Claus (1835), Wilhelm Gerhard Walpers (1816), Karl Alfred von Zittel (1839), August W. Eichler (1839), Max Fürbringer (1846), and Johann Gottfried Zinn (1727).

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