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David J. C. MacKay

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Regius Professor of Engineering at the University of Cambridge (1967-2016)

United KingdomScientistsLived 1967 to 2016 · aged 48
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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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2014Maxwell Lecture
2009Fellow of the Royal Society
Fulbright Scholarship
Fellow of the Institute of Physics
Knight Bachelor

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

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United Kingdom
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Scientists
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Scientist
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deceased
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Lived 1967 to 2016 · aged 48
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