Jacqueline Halle Sinks Jakway (1928 – 25 March 2008) was a professor of anatomy and cell biology.
Jakway was born Jacqueline Halle Sinks in 1928 in Puerto Rico, later moving to Missouri.
Jakway attended Joplin High School in 1946, followed by attending Park College in Parkville, earning a BA in biology in 1950, and then in 1958 pursued a PhD in anatomy from the University of Kansas.
[2] Jakway then moved to New York and taught gross anatomy and neuroanatomy as an associate professor of anatomy and cell biology at the State University of New York Downstate Medical College from 1967 to 2008.
[6] Jakway then went on to study the anatomy of the eye and publish "A Perspective on the Fundamental Retinal Projections of Vertebrates"[7] and "Retinal Projections in the Tiger Salamander, Ambystoma tigrinum".