David J. C. MacKay
FICE | |
---|---|
Born | David John Cameron MacKay 22 April 1967[4][6] Stoke-on-Trent, England |
Died | 14 April 2016 , England | (aged 48)
Alma mater | |
Known for |
|
Spouse |
Ramesh Ghiassi (m. 2011) |
Awards | |
Scientific career | |
Fields | |
Institutions | |
Thesis | Bayesian methods for adaptive models (1992) |
Doctoral advisor | John Hopfield[5] |
Website | withouthotair www gov |
Sir David John Cameron MacKay
Education
MacKay was educated at
Career and research
In January 1992 MacKay was appointed the
MacKay's contributions
His interests beyond research included the development of effective teaching methods and African development; he taught regularly at the
MacKay was appointed to be Chief Scientific Advisor of the Department of Energy and Climate Change, United Kingdom, in September 2009.[14] In October 2014, at the end of his five-year term, he was succeeded by John Loughhead.[36]
Awards and honours
MacKay was elected a
In the 2016 New Year Honours, MacKay was appointed a Knight Bachelor "for services to Scientific Advice in Government and Science Outreach", and therefore granted the title sir.[37][38]
Personal life
David MacKay was born the fifth child of Donald MacCrimmon MacKay and Valerie MacKay.[4] His elder brother Robert S. MacKay FRS (born in 1956) is Professor of Mathematics at the University of Warwick. David was a vegetarian.[39]
He married Ramesh Ghiassi in 2011.[4] They had a son and a daughter.[11]
Illness and death
MacKay was diagnosed with inoperable stomach cancer (malignant adenocarcinoma) in July 2015,[3] for which he underwent palliative chemotherapy, a process he documented in detail on his public personal blog.[40][41] He died in the afternoon of 14 April 2016.[42][43][44][45] He is survived by his wife and two children.[11]
References
- ^ a b c Anon (2009). "Sir David MacKay FRS". London: Royal Society. Archived from the original on 17 November 2015. One or more of the preceding sentences incorporates text from the royalsociety.org website where:
“All text published under the heading 'Biography' on Fellow profile pages is available under Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License.” --"Royal Society Terms, conditions and policies". Archived from the original on 25 September 2015. Retrieved 9 March 2016.
{{cite web}}
: CS1 maint: bot: original URL status unknown (link) - ^ a b Anon (2009). "Certificate of election EC/2009/27: MacKay, David John Cameron". London: Royal Society. Archived from the original on 15 February 2019.
- ^ ISSN 0080-4606.
- ^ a b c d e f g "MacKAY, Prof. David John Cameron". Who's Who. Vol. 2016 (online Oxford University Press ed.). Oxford: A & C Black. (Subscription or UK public library membership required.)
- ^ a b David J. C. MacKay at the Mathematics Genealogy Project
- ^ David MacKay (7 February 2010). "Biography – David J.C. MacKay". web homepage. University of Cambridge. Archived from the original on 16 April 2016. Retrieved 12 October 2012.
- ^ ISBN 978-0-9544529-3-3.
- ^ .
- ^ S2CID 185665.
- ^ "Ramesh and David". Rameshanddavid.blogspot.com. 15 January 2011. Retrieved 18 October 2012.
- ^ a b c Anon (2016). "Professor Sir David MacKay, physicist – obituary". The Daily Telegraph. Archived from the original on 17 April 2016.
- ^ "David MacKay appointed Regius Professor of Engineering". Cambridge: University of Cambridge. 28 March 2013. Archived from the original on 3 March 2016.
- ^ David MacKay (7 July 2012). "David J.C. MacKay FRS". web homepage. University of Cambridge. Retrieved 12 October 2012.
- ^ a b 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
- ^ David MacKay (23 August 2010). "Prof. David J.C. MacKay brief bio sketch". web homepage. University of Cambridge. Retrieved 28 September 2016.
- OCLC 222439886.
- ^ David MacKay (24 June 2010). "Prof. David J.C. MacKay". web homepage. University of Cambridge. Retrieved 12 October 2012.
- ^ "David MacKay appointed Regius Professor of Engineering". University of Cambridge. 28 March 2013. Retrieved 3 April 2013.
- ^ David J. C. MacKay at DBLP Bibliography Server
- ^ David J. C. MacKay author profile page at the ACM Digital Library
- ^ David J. C. MacKay publications indexed by Google Scholar
- ^ David J. C. MacKay publications indexed by the Scopus bibliographic database. (subscription required)
- S2CID 16543854.
- S2CID 1762283.
- S2CID 4430685.
- ^ "Transversal Team". Archived from the original on 28 January 2015. Retrieved 27 January 2015.
- ISBN 9780521642989.
- ^ a b Leo Hickman (30 April 2009). "Power to the People". The Guardian. Retrieved 14 January 2011.
- ^ "Meltdown". The Economist. 8 April 2009. Retrieved 14 January 2011.
- ^ Bill Gates (15 January 2010). "Clear Thinking on the Topic of Energy". The Gates Notes. Archived from the original on 5 January 2011. Retrieved 14 January 2011.
- ^ "YouTube – How Many Light Bulbs? with David MacKay From Cambridge Ideas". YouTube. Archived from the original on 21 December 2021. Retrieved 28 June 2011.
- ^ "Sustainable energy - Without the Hot Air". David MacKay FRS. 29 August 2015. Retrieved 2 July 2017.
- ^ David MacKay (March 2012). A reality check on renewables. Retrieved 12 October 2012.
- ^ DECC appoints new chief scientific advisor
- ^ "No. 61450". The London Gazette (Supplement). 30 December 2015. p. N2.
- ^ "New Year's Honours 2016 list" (PDF). GOV.UK. 30 December 2015. Retrieved 30 December 2015.
- ^ David MacKay (7 February 2010). "David MacKay: Some biographical stuff..." web homepage. University of Cambridge. Retrieved 29 March 2010.
- ^ Unexpected signs of malignancy, 27 August 2015
- ^ What do you tell the children?, 1 September 2015
- ^ Appendix Three- Correspondence, Visitors, and Gifts, 12 April 2016
- ^ Mark Lynas (18 April 2016). "Sir David MacKay obituary". The Guardian. London. Archived from the original on 19 April 2016.
- ^ Athene Donald (2016). "RIP Sir David MacKay". occamstypewriter.org. Archived from the original on 19 April 2016.
- ^ Mark Lynas (2016). "What David MacKay taught me, and taught us all". Archived from the original on 15 April 2016.