Godfrey H Hardy
(1877 - 1947), a well-known English
mathematician, is prominent in biological history for his
publication in 1908 of a proof of the fundamental theorem of
population genetics, that in the absence of other factors,
allele frequencies in a population will remain constant
between generations. The theorem is most often cited as the
Hardy-Weinberg
Principle, to include the German mathematician
who showed the same principle at about the same time. It is
sometimes called the Hardy-Weinberg-Castle
Principle, to include an American geneticist who
demonstrated a special case of the phenomenon.