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Professor and Associate
Dean
Ph.D., University of
London, Imperial College, U.K., 1954
UCLA Department of Materials
Science and Engineering,
405 Hilgard Avenue, Room 6531
Boelter Hall
Los Angeles, CA
90095-1595, USA
John D. Mackenzie is Nippon Sheet
Glass Professor of Materials Science at the University of California,
Los Angeles. He received his B.Sc. and Ph.D. in Physical Chemistry
at London University, England in 1952 and 1954, respectively. He
was a research Fellow at Princeton University, New Jersey and an I.C.I.
Fellow at Cambridge University, England. From 1957 to 1963, he was
a Research Scientist at the General Electric Research Laboratory at
Schenectady, New York. In 1963, Mackenzie became Professor of
Materials Science at the Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy, New
York and in 1969, he became a Professor at the University of California
at Los Angeles. He was chairman of the Materials Science and
Engineering Department from 1979 to 1982. Professor Mackenzie was
the founding editor to the Journal of Non-Crystalline Solids in 1969 and
continued to be editor-in-chief until 1989. He was elected to the
U.S. National Academy of Engineering in 1976 for his research on
glass. He was presented with the Meyer Award and Toledo award of
the American Ceramic Society in 1964 and 1973. He also received
the Educator Award of the American Ceramic Society in 1986 from the
Society. He was elected to the International Academy of Ceramics
in 1991, as an Honorary Member of the Japan Materials Research Society
in 1993. Professor Mackenzie was the Cecil and Ida Green Honors
Professor at Texas Christian University in 1994, the Samuel S. Scholes
Lecturer at Alfred University in 1995 and the W.E.S. Turner Lecturer at
Sheffield University, England, 1996.
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