Sir David Jack (22 February 1924 – 8 November 2011[2][3]) was a Scottish pharmacologist and medicinal chemist who specialised in the development of drugs for treating asthma.

Jack was born the sixth and youngest child of a coal miner, in Markinch, Fife, Scotland.

[4] He attended Buckhaven High School before turning down a place at Edinburgh University to become an apprentice pharmacist.

In 1944, having completed his apprenticeship, he began a BSc course in chemistry and pharmacy at the Royal Technical College, Glasgow.

[1][4] In 1951 he joined the pharmaceutical company Glaxo Laboratories, moving to Smith Kline and French in 1953.