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Donald Mackay (scientist)

Donald Mackay (scientist)

Scottish-Canadian scientist and engineer (1936–2023)


Donald Mackay OC OOnt (30 October 1936 – 20 October 2023) was a Scottish-born Canadian scientist and engineer specializing in environmental chemistry.

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Life and career

Donald Mackay was born on 30 October 1936.[1] He was a member of the faculty of Chemical Engineering and Applied Chemistry at the University of Toronto and the founding director of the Canadian Environmental Modelling Centre at Trent University. He has developed several multimedia fugacity models.[2] He has stressed that principles of good practice also need to be adopted for chemical assessments, especially in a regulatory context.[3]

In 2004, Mackay was invested as an Officer of the Order of Canada for having "greatly contributed to the quality and our stewardship of the global environment".[4] In 2004, he was also invested into the Order of Ontario for "his outstanding contributions to environmental science".[5]

Mackay died at the Peterborough Regional Health Centre on 20 October 2023, at the age of 86.[6]


References

  1. "Archived copy" (PDF). Archived (PDF) from the original on March 4, 2016. Retrieved February 23, 2013.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link)
  2. Mackay, Don (August 26, 2021). "Fugacity and Multi-Media Models: A Personal Odyssey". SETAC Globe. Archived from the original on August 26, 2021. Retrieved August 26, 2021.
  3. Good modeling practice guidelines for applying multimedia models in chemical assessments, doi:10.1002/ieam.1299
  4. "Donald and Agnes Mackay". The Globe & Mail. Retrieved September 14, 2023 via Legacy.com.



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