Primary Job Title Founder Primary Organization 
Annual Reviews
Location Palo Alto, California, United States Regions San Francisco Bay Area, Silicon Valley, West Coast Gender Male
J. Murray Luck was the founder of Annual Reviews, a nonprofit enterprise devoted to the advancement of science through the publication of critical reviews and analyses of the rapidly expanding scientific literature. The organization's first journal (1932) was the Annual Review of Biochemistry.
For four decades, Luck taught biochemistry to
Stanford medical students and led advanced courses for graduate students. His specialty was the role of proteins in carcinogenesis. He published more than 200 scientific papers.
Today, Annual Reviews journals are published in 40 fields of study in the biomedical, life, physical, and social sciences.
