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.
Yockey attended the University of California, Berkeley where he was awarded a bachelors in 1938 and a Ph.D. in 1942.
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".
[citation needed] His wife Mary died in 2006.