Motoo Kimura, 1924–1994

✍ Scribed by Thomas H. Jukes

• Book ID: 104649182
• Publisher: Springer
• Year: 1995
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 92 KB
• Volume: 40
• Category: Article
• ISSN: 0022-2844
• DOI: 10.1007/bf00160522

✦ Synopsis

Motoo Kimura, evolutionist and population geneticist, died on his seventieth birthday (November 13, 1994) in Shizuoka, following a long illness caused by amyotrophic lateral sclerosis, popularly known in the U.S.A. as "Lou Gehrig's Disease." One of the strongest voices in molecular evolution was thus prematurely stilled.

Motoo was born November 13, 1924 in Okasaki. He reminisced at length about his life in two articles (Jap-