Wilhelm Weinberg

…concurrently with the German physician Wilhelm Weinberg, what is now known as the Hardy-Weinberg law. The law resolved the controversy over what proportions of dominant and recessive genetic traits would be propagated in a large mixed population. Although Hardy attached little importance to the law, it became central to the…

…discovered independently in 1908 by Wilhelm Weinberg, a German physician, and Godfrey Harold Hardy, a British mathematician.

…by Godfrey Harold Hardy and Wilhelm Weinberg in 1908. The Hardy-Weinberg equilibrium of a population with allele frequencies p and q is defined by the set of genotypic frequencies p² of AA, 2pq of Aa, and q² of aa.