Hubert Yockey

Physicist, Author

1916 –

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Who is Hubert Yockey?

Professor Hubert P. Yockey, PhD is a physicist and information theorist. He worked under Robert Oppenheimer on the Manhattan Project, and at the University of California, Berkeley.

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

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Born
Apr 15, 1916
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  • United States of America
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on July 23, 2013

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