- J.L. Hubby
John "Jack" Lee Hubby (died
March 28 1996 , aged 64) was an American geneticist, pioneer ofgel electrophoresis and co-author withR.C. Lewontin of foundational studies in the field ofmolecular evolution .After earning a PhD from the
University of Texas in 1959, Hubby took a postdoctoral fellowship at theUniversity of Chicago , followed a faculty position there. In the early 1960s, he developed new applications for gel electrophoresis. He the technique to identify different version of the same protein (reflecting differentallele s for the samegenetic locus ) in fruit flies. Hubby collaborated with Richard Lewtontin to produce two breakthrough papers in 1966 that used electrophoresis to determine the level of genetic variation in natural populations of "Drosophila pseudoobscura ". Their studies revealed high levels ofheterozygosity relative to the predictions of most evolutionary theorists. [" [http://chronicle.uchicago.edu/960425/obithubby.shtml Obituary: John Hubby, BSD] ", "Chicago Chronicle", April 25, 1996, Vol. 15, No. 16. Accessed May 24, 2008]Notes and references
External links
* [http://chronicle.uchicago.edu/960425/obithubby.shtml Obituary, Chicago Chronicle]
* [http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9E0DE3D61639F93BA15757C0A960958260 Obituary, NY Times]
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