David J. C. MacKay
Regius Professor of Engineering at the University of Cambridge (1967-2016)
Sir David John Cameron MacKay, FRS, FInstP, FICE (22 April 1967 – 14 April 2016)[2] was a British physicist, mathematician, and academic. He was the Regius Professor of Engineering in the Department of Engineering at the University of Cambridge[6] and from 2009 to 2014 was Chief Scientific Adviser to the UK Department of Energy and Climate Change (DECC).[7] Before being appointed to the DECC, MacKay was most well known as author of the book Sustainable Energy – Without the Hot Air.[3][8][9]
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| Born | David John Cameron MacKay 22 April 1967[1] Stoke-on-Trent, England |
| Died | 14 April 2016 (aged 48) Cambridge, England |
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| Spouse | Ramesh Ghiassi[4] |
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| Thesis | Bayesian methods for adaptive models (1992) |
| Doctoral advisor | John Hopfield |
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| Website | withouthotair www www |
MacKay died of stomach cancer in Cambridge, England on 14 April 2016, aged 48.
References
change- ↑ David MacKay (7 February 2010). "Biography – David J.C. MacKay". web homepage. University of Cambridge. Retrieved 12 October 2012.
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 "MacKAY, Prof. David John Cameron". Who's Who 2013, A & C Black, an imprint of Bloomsbury Publishing plc, 2013; online edn, Oxford University Press.(subscription required)
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 Mackay, David (2009). Sustainable Energy: Without the Hot Air. UIT Cambridge. ISBN 978-0-9544529-3-3.
- ↑ "Ramesh and David". Rameshanddavid.blogspot.com. 15 January 2011. Retrieved 18 October 2012.
- ↑ 5.0 5.1 5.2 5.3 5.4 MacKay's personal group website in Cambridge, 22 April 2014
- ↑ 6.0 6.1 David MacKay (7 July 2012). "David J.C. MacKay FRS". web homepage. University of Cambridge. Retrieved 12 October 2012.
- ↑ DECC confirms MacKay as new low-carbon advisor, BusinessGreen, 3 September 2009, retrieved 29 December 2011
- ↑ "Britons of the Year", The Daily Telegraph, London, p. 15, 29 December 2009
- ↑ "What Will It Take to Save the Earth?" 26 April 2012 by Joel E. Cohen in The New York Review of Books
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