Hubert Yockey

Hubert Palmer Yockey (April 15, 1916 – January 31, 2016) was an American physicist and information theorist.[1][2] He worked under Robert Oppenheimer on the Manhattan Project, and at the University of California, Berkeley.

Hubert P. Yockey
Born
Hubert Palmer Yockey

(1916-04-15)April 15, 1916
Alexandria, Minnesota, U.S.
DiedJanuary 31, 2016(2016-01-31) (aged 99)
Bel Air, Maryland, U.S.
Alma materUniversity of California, Berkeley (A.B., Ph.D.)
Spouse
Mary Ann Leach
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(m. 1946; died 2006)​
Scientific career
Fields
Institutions

Yockey attended the University of California, Berkeley where he was awarded a bachelors in 1938 and a Ph.D. in 1942.[2] In 1946 he married Mary Ann Leach.[3]

He studied the application of information theory to problems in biology and published his conclusions in the Journal of Theoretical Biology from 1974 onwards. Yockey was very critical of the primordial soup theory of the origin of life, and believed that "the origin of life is unsolvable as a scientific problem".

His wife Mary died in 2006.[4][1] Yockey died on January 31, 2016, at the age of 99.[1]

Publications
  • Hubert P. Yockey Information Theory and Molecular Biology 1992 Cambridge University Press, ISBN 978-0521350051
  • Hubert P. Yockey, Information Theory, Evolution, and the Origin of Life 2005 Cambridge University Press, ISBN 0-521-80293-8
  • Yockey HP. (1981). "Self organization origin of life scenarios and information theory". J Theor Biol. 91 (1): 13–31. Bibcode:1981JThBi..91...13Y. doi:10.1016/0022-5193(81)90370-2. PMID 7300380.
  • Yockey, Hubert; Platzman, Robert; Quastler, Henry, eds. (1958). Symposium on Information Theory in Biology. Pergamon Press.

See also

References
  1. "Dr. Hubert Yockey of Bel Air, Director of APG Reactor; Manhattan Project Nuclear Physicist, Dies at 99". The Dagger. February 21, 2016. Retrieved April 15, 2016.
  2. Moy, Tracie, ed. (2016). "Yockey, Hubert Palmer". American Men & Women of Science: A Biographical Directory of Today's Leaders in Physical, Biological, and Related Sciences. Vol. 16 (34th ed.). Farmington Hills, Mich.: Gale. p. 10378. ISBN 978-1-57302-866-0. ISSN 0000-1287. OCLC 951551690.
  3. "Atom Bomb Romance Leads to Altar". Oakland Tribune. Oakland, CA. July 11, 1946. p. 15 – via Newspapers.com.
  4. "Mary Ann Yockey Obituary". Tribute Archive. Retrieved March 4, 2023.
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