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Language was the reason why the recognition due to W. Weinberg came 35 years later than that for G.W. Hardy's. Both men were responsible for the Hardy-Weinberg law, which is the foundation of diploid population genetics. However, Weinberg wrote in German, at a time when genetics was dominated by English speakers. Hardy was Britain's leading mathematician at the time when he wrote his article on the mathematics of brachydactyly. Besides the law that joined their names together, both men had nothing in common. While Weinberg was delivering babies and giving medical care to the poor, Hardy was doing math in the morning and watching cricket in the afternoon.
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Motoo Kimura, an expert in the field of mathematical population genetics and evolutionary theory, is remembered for his innovative neutral theory of molecular evolution. He was born on November 13, 1924 in Okazaki, Japan and died on the same day in 1994 due to injuries sustained from an accidental fall. Kimura was an expert in manipulating Kolmogorov equations for their application in evolutionary problems the phenomenon of quasi-linkage equilibrium was also discovered by Kimura. His major findings and biographical details are discussed.
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Howard Temin was born in Philadelphia, PA, on Dec. 10, 1934. He studied biology in Swarthmore College and completed his graduate work at the California Institute of Technology. Temin continued his research in Rous Sarcoma Virus at the University of Wisconsin where he developed his provirus hypothesis. He discovered reverse transcriptase in 1970 and was awarded the Nobel Prize in 1975. Temin died of lung cancer on Feb. 9, 1994.
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