David J. C. MacKay

Sir David John Cameron MacKay, FRS, FInstP, FICE (22 April 1967 – 14 April 2016) 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 Adviser to the UK Department of Energy and Climate Change (DECC). Before being appointed to the DECC, MacKay was most well known as author of the book Sustainable Energy – Without the Hot Air."What Will It Take to Save the Earth?" 26 April 2012 by Joel E. Cohen in The New York Review of Books

MacKay died of stomach cancer in Cambridge, England on 14 April 2016, aged 48.

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