James Murray Luck (October 23, 1899 – August 26, 1993) was a Canadian biochemist. At the time of his death in 1993, he was the longest-serving faculty in the history of Stanford University, getting hired in 1926 as an assistant professor and retiring in 1965. Luck authored more than 200 scientific publications, and mentored the future Nobel laureate Paul D. Boyer. While at Stanford, he started the academic journal Annual Review of Biochemistry, first published in 1932. After adding a second title in physiology, the advisory committee of the journal changed its name to Annual Reviews, which publishes fifty-one journals as of 2021. Luck served as a science attaché, spending two years at the US Embassy in Bern, Switzerland, and two months each at the embassies in London and Stockholm. He took an interest in cooperative organization, helping establish the Palo Alto Co-op, which were consumer-owned grocery stores. He also cofounded the Palo Alto Credit Union (cooperative banking) and the Peninsula Housing Association (cooperative housing). Early life and education James Murray Luck was born in Paris, Ontario on October 23, 1899 as the youngest of five children to his parents, Nina Victoria Coulson and Horatio Washington Luck. In 1922, he graduated with a bachelor of science degree from University of Toronto, which was followed by a PhD in biochemistry from University of Cambridge in 1925. While at Cambridge, he studied the origin of ammonia in the bloodstream with Frederick Gowland Hopkins and J. B. S. Haldane. Career Research and academic societies After graduating from Cambridge, Luck returned to the University of Toronto and worked for a year as a "Demonstrator" in biochemistry. In 1926, Luck began teaching biochemistry as an assistant professor at Stanford University. In 1934, he was made an associate professor, and in 1941 a full professor. He retired in 1965, making him the longest-serving faculty member at Stanford. In the course of his career, he authored more than 200 scientific publications. One of the graduate students he mentored, Paul D. Boyer, won the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1997. He served as Secretary of the American Association for the Advancement of Science—Pacific Division from 1929–1944, and served as president by 1957. He was also a member of various committees for the American Cancer Society, National Institutes of Health, the Medical Fellowship Board, the National Research Council, and National Science Foundation. For several years, he was head of