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]
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]