weinberg's contributions were unrecognized in the english speaking world for more than 35 years. curt stern, a german scientist who immigrated to the united states before world war ii, pointed out in a brief paper in "science" that weinberg's exposition was both earlier and more comprehensive than hardy's. before 1943, the concepts in genetic equilibrium that are known today as the hardy-weinberg principle had been known as "hardy's law" or "hardy's formula" in english-language texts.