Joseph Weiner

Joseph Sidney Weiner FRCP (29 June 1915 – 13 June 1982) was a South African-born British human biologist and environmental physiologist.[1][2][3] He was influential[4] and among other things helped expose the Piltdown hoax.[5] He was President of the Royal Anthropological Institute of Great Britain and Ireland, 1963-64, and Huxley Memorial Medallist in 1978.[5]

Weiner maintained an abiding interest in heat adaptation in humans from his doctorate at London University in 1946,[2] and was still publishing on the subject the year before he died.[5]

References
  1. Edmund Weiner, ‘Weiner, Joseph Sidney (1915–1982)’, Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, 2004 accessed 26 March 2015
  2. GA Harrison KC, Sir Gordon Wolstenholme (1982). "Munks Roll Details for Joseph Sidney Weiner". Brit.med.J., 285, 982-3; Times, 16 June 1982; Lancet, 1982, 1, 1477. Munk's Roll.
  3. ‘WEINER, Prof. Joseph Sidney’, Who Was Who, A & C Black, an imprint of Bloomsbury Publishing plc, 1920–2015; online edn, Oxford University Press, 2014 ; online edn, April 2014 accessed 26 March 2015
  4. Little, Michael A.; Collins, Kenneth J. (2012). "Joseph S. Weiner and the foundation of post-WW II human biology in the United Kingdom". American Journal of Physical Anthropology. 149: 114–31. doi:10.1002/ajpa.22164. PMID 23124506.
  5. Reynolds, Vernon. "Obituary: Joseph S. Weiner". RAIN 52, p. 15-16. Royal Anthropological Institute of Great Britain and Ireland. Retrieved February 16, 2018.
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