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David John Cameron MacKay, FRS FInstP FICE (born 22 April 1967),〔 is 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 has been diagnosed with terminal stomach cancer, for which he is currently undergoing palliative chemotherapy, a process he is documenting in detail on his public personal blog. He expects to die of the cancer in 2016 or early 2017. ==Life and career== MacKay was born the fifth child of Donald MacCrimmon MacKay and Valerie MacKay. His elder brother Robert S. MacKay FRS (born in 1956) is Professor of Mathematics at the University of Warwick. David was educated at Newcastle High School (later Newcastle-under-Lyme School) and represented Britain in the International Physics Olympiad in Yugoslavia in 1985, receiving the first prize for experimental work. He went up to Trinity College, Cambridge, and received a Bachelor of Arts in Natural Sciences (Experimental and theoretical physics) in 1988. He went to the California Institute of Technology (Caltech) as a Fulbright Scholar. His supervisor in the graduate programme in Computation and Neural Systems was John Hopfield.〔 He was awarded a PhD in 1992. In January 1992 MacKay was made the Royal Society Smithson Research Fellow at Darwin College, Cambridge, continuing his cross-disciplinary research in the Cavendish Laboratory, the Department of Physics of the University of Cambridge. In 1995 he was made a University Lecturer in the Cavendish Laboratory. He was promoted in 1999 to a Readership, in 2003 to a Professorship in Natural Philosophy and in 2013 to the post of Regius Professorship of Engineering. He was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in May 2009.〔 〕 MacKay is a vegetarian. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「David J. C. MacKay」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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