Alan Lindsay Mackay

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Alan Lindsay Mackay
John Desmond Bernal

Alan Lindsay Mackay FRS (born 6 September 1926) is a British crystallographer, born in Wolverhampton.

Mackay was educated at

John Desmond Bernal
.

Mackay has made important scientific contributions related to the structure of materials: In 1962 he published a manuscript that showed how to pack atoms in an

Quasicrystals with icosahedral symmetry were found by Dan Shechtman and co-workers in 1984.[5]

For his contributions to

quasicrystals
.

Mackay has been interested in a generalised crystallography, which can describe not only crystals, but more complex structures and nanomaterials.

Buckminsterfullerenes[9][10]

Mackay has compiled a book of scientific quotations[11] and has co-authored a book on geometry with Eric Lord and S. Ranganathan.[12] He has also written a book of poetry[13] and has translated from the German, with commentaries, Ernst Haeckel's last book "Kristallseelen", (1917).[14] He produces scientifically inspired visual art under his artistic pseudonym Sho Takahashi. Some of his 3D printed minimal surface designs can be found at his shapeways store.[15]

Mackay became a Fellow of the Royal Society (FRS) on 17 March 1988 and a Fellow of Birkbeck College[16] on 2 March 2002. He is also a Fellow of the Mexican Academy of Sciences.

References

  1. ^ "MACKAY, Prof. Alan Lindsay". Who's Who. Vol. 2023 (online ed.). A & C Black. (Subscription or UK public library membership required.)
  2. ^ Alan L. Mackay, "A dense non-crystallographic packing of equal spheres", Acta Crystallogr. Vol. 15, 916 (1962).
  3. ^ Alan L. Mackay, "De Nive Quinquangula", Krystallografiya, Vol. 26, 910–9 (1981).
  4. ^ Alan L. Mackay, "Crystallography and the Penrose Pattern", Physica 114 A, 609 (1982).
  5. ^ D. Shechtman, I. Blech, D. Gratias, and J. Cahn, "Metallic Phase with Long-Range Orientational Order and No Translational Symmetry". Physical Review Letters 53: 1951 (1984).
  6. ^ "2010 Oliver E. Buckley Condensed Matter Physics Prize Recipient". American Physical Society. Retrieved 7 October 2012.
  7. ^ Alan L. Mackay, Comp. & Maths. with Appls. "Generalised Crystallography", Vol. 12B, No 1-2, 21 (1986).
  8. ^ Julyan H. E. Cartwright and Alan L. Mackay, "Beyond crystals: the dialectic of materials and information", Phil. Trans. Roy. Soc. A, 28 June 2012 vol. 370 no. 1969, 2807–2822.
  9. ^ Alan L. Mackay, & Humberto Terrones, "Diamond from Graphite", Nature, Vol. 352, 762 (1991).
  10. ^ Humberto Terrones & Alan L. Mackay, "The geometry of Hypothetical Curved Graphite Structures", Carbon, Vol. 30, No. 8, 1251 (1992).
  11. ISBN 978-0750301060
    (1991).
  12. ISBN 978-0521861045
    (2006).
  13. ^ Alan L. Mackay, "The floating world of science", Lulu.com (2011).
  14. ^ Alan L. Mackay, "Ernst Haeckel and Biological Form", Lulu.com (2007).
  15. ^ "Alan_l_mackay's Designs on Shapeways".
  16. ^ "Fellows of the College". Birkbeck, University of London. Retrieved 9 October 2012.

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