Joseph Weiner

Joseph Sidney Weiner FRCP FRAI (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. Harrison, GA; Wolstenholme, Gordon (1982). "Joseph Sidney Weiner". 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. Royal Anthropological Institute of Great Britain and Ireland. 52: 15–16. Retrieved 16 February 2018.


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