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David J. C. MacKay

Regius Professor of Engineering at the University of Cambridge (1967-2016) · United Kingdom · On the map · Academics · Died at 48

Sir David John Cameron MacKay was a British physicist, mathematician, and academic. He was the Regius Professor of Engineering in the Department of Engineering at the University of Cambridge and from 2009 to 2014 was Chief Scientific Advisor to the UK Department of Energy and Climate Change (DECC).

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Maxwell Lecture2014
Fellow of the Royal Society2009
Fulbright Scholarship
Fellow of the Institute of Physics
Knight Bachelor

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MacKay wrote the book Sustainable Energy - Without the Hot Air.

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United Kingdom
Category
Academics
Type
Academic
Status
Deceased
Dates
Lived 1967 to 2016 · aged 48