Jack Porter Gibbs (August 26, 1927 – August 20, 2020) was an

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sociologist known for his work on

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and

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. In the early 1960s, he and

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helped plan the founding of the Population Research Center at the

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, which was founded in 1963. A 2015 book described Gibbs as "a giant of his time".

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