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Professor Hubert P. Yockey (b. April 15, 1916), 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".
Well into his sixties, Yockey organized and lead canoe expeditions in the wilderness of Nunavik, Quebec, Canada:
1979 - Rivière Du Sable from Lac Vincennes, Caniapiscau River and Koksoak River to Kuujjuak. This was first recorded descent of Rivière Du Sable
1980 - Repeated the trip of the previous year
1981 - Whale River from Lac Savalette to Ungava Bay. This was first recorded descent of the full river
1983 - Magpie River on kayaks, supported by raft[1]
Publications
- Hubert P. Yockey Information Theory and Molecular Biology 1992 Cambridge University Press
- Hubert P. Yockey, Information Theory, Evolution, and the Origin of Life 2005 Cambridge University Press ISBN 0521802938
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References
- ^ Bruce W. Hodgins & Gwyneth Hoyle (1997). Canoeing North into the Unknown (A Record of River Travel: 1874-1974). pp. 220, 244. ISBN 0-920474-93-4.
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