Joseph Weiner

Joseph Sidney Weiner Fellow of the [Royal College of Physicians|FRCP] Royal [Anthropological Institute of Great Britain and Ireland|FRAI] was a South African-born British human biologist and environmental physiologist. He was influential and among other things helped expose the Piltdown hoax. He was President of the Royal Anthropological Institute of [Great Britain and Ireland], 1963–64, and Huxley Memorial Medallist in 1978.
Weiner maintained an abiding interest in Cold and heat [adaptations in humans|heat adaptation in humans] from his doctorate at London University in 1946, and was still publishing on the subject the year before he died.