Hubert Yockey

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

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."

He died on January 31, 2016 at the age of 99.[2]

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. 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.

Trivia

Well into his sixties, Yockey organized and led canoe expeditions in the wilderness of Nunavik, Quebec, Canada. The details can be found at Hubert P. Yockey's personal website.

gollark: Stone dragons would just sit there.
gollark: Pillow dragons would manage to win by being cute and/or absorbing impacts easily.
gollark: Also, nexuses/nexi are powerful, according to the description.
gollark: Nebulae would win fights by saying "Hey, stop fighting me! Look at this cool constellation here? See that star there? It's 500 light-years from this planet, and the latest data shows that it might have habitable planets! Cool, right?" and distracting their opponents.
gollark: ```Despite their great size and strength, Celestial Dragons are a peaceful breed named for their spectral, starry appearance. Little else is known about them, as they spend the vast majority of their lives partially phased out of the plane of existence through the use of powerful magic. Celestial Dragons are thought to assume their corporeal form only long enough to reproduce or to die; the rest of the time, they resemble living, breathing constellations, impervious to all physical and magical harm.```

See also

References
  1. "Dr. Hubert Yockey of Bel Air, Director of APG Reactor; Manhattan Project Nuclear Physicist, Dies at 99". The Dagger. 21 February 2016. Retrieved 15 April 2016.
  2. Staff (2016-02-21). "Dr. Hubert Yockey of Bel Air, Director of APG Reactor; Manhattan Project Nuclear Physicist, Dies at 99". daggerpress.com. Retrieved 2016-04-15.
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