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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]
^ Edmund Weiner, ‘Weiner, Joseph Sidney (1915–1982)’,
Oxford Dictionary of National Biography , Oxford University Press, 2004
accessed 26 March 2015
^
a
b Harrison, GA; Wolstenholme, Gordon (1982).
"Joseph Sidney Weiner" .
Munk's Roll .
^ ‘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
^ 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 .
^
a
b
c Reynolds, Vernon.
"Obituary: Joseph S. Weiner" . RAIN . 52 . Royal Anthropological Institute of Great Britain and Ireland: 15–16. Retrieved 16 February 2018 .
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