Jack Lester King
Jack Lester King (March 9, 1934 – June 29, 1983) was an American evolutionary biologist best known for co-authoring (with
King was born in Oakland, California and received both undergraduate and doctoral training at the University of California, Berkeley, earning a Ph.D. in Zoology in 1963. From 1963 to 1969, he remained at UC Berkeley as a postdoctoral fellow in population genetics, then independent researcher in biophysics, at the Donner Laboratory. In 1969, King became a professor at University of California, Santa Barbara.[2]
King and Jukes' "Non-Darwinian Evolution", published in
King became an associate editor of the Journal of Molecular Evolution in 1971, shortly after the journal's founding. He co-authored a 1981 textbook, Biology, The Science of Life.[5] King died unexpectedly in 1983 from a brain hemorrhage caused by acute myelomonocytic leukemia.[2] King was survived by his second wife Ethel and their two children, as well as six children from his first marriage.
References
- PMID 5767777.
- ^ a b "Jack Lester King 1934–1983 Associate Editor of the Journal of Molecular Evolution October 1971–June 1983", in Journal of Molecular Evolution, Vol. 19, No. 5 (1983), pp. 307-308
- ^ "Jack Lester King 1934–1983 Associate Editor of the Journal of Molecular Evolution October 1971–June 1983", in Journal of Molecular Evolution, Vol. 19, No. 5 (1983), pp. 307-308. Quotation from p. 307.
- ^ Jack Lester King, Biological Sciences: Santa Barbara, 1985, University of California: In Memoriam, pp. 217-219, accessed May 13, 2007
- ^ https://isbndb.com/book/9780673467744