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Alan Lindsay Mackay was born on 6 September, 1926 in Wolverhampton, England, is a British crystallographer (born 1926). Discover Alan Lindsay Mackay's Biography, Age, Height, Physical Stats, Dating/Affairs, Family and career updates. Learn How rich is he in this year and how he spends money? Also learn how he earned most of networth at the age of 97 years old?

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Born 6 September, 1926
Birthday 6 September
Birthplace Wolverhampton, England
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1917

He has also written a book of poetry and has translated from the German, with commentaries, Ernst Haeckel's last book "Kristallseelen", (1917).

He produces scientifically inspired visual art under his artistic pseudonym Sho Takahashi.

Some of his 3D printed minimal surface designs can be found at his shapeways store.

1926

Alan Lindsay Mackay FRS (born 6 September 1926) is a British crystallographer, born in Wolverhampton.

Mackay was educated at Wolverhampton Grammar School, Oundle School, Trinity College, Cambridge, and the University of London, where he received his doctorate.

He spent his scientific career at Birkbeck College, founded by George Birkbeck, one of the Colleges of the University of London, where he was immersed in a liberal scientific atmosphere under the leadership of John Desmond Bernal.

1962

Mackay has made important scientific contributions related to the structure of materials: In 1962 he published a manuscript that showed how to pack atoms in an icosahedral fashion; a first step towards five-fold symmetry in materials science.

These arrangements are now called Mackay icosahedra.

1981

He is a pioneer in the introduction of five-fold symmetry in materials and in 1981 predicted quasicrystals in a paper (in Russian) entitled "De Nive Quinquangula" in which he used a Penrose tiling in two and three dimensions to predict a new kind of ordered structures not allowed by traditional crystallography.

1982

In a later manuscript, in 1982, he took the optical Fourier transform of a 2-D Penrose tiling decorated with atoms, obtaining a pattern with sharp spots and five-fold symmetry.

This brought the possibility of identifying quasiperiodic order in a material through diffraction.

1984

Quasicrystals with icosahedral symmetry were found by Dan Shechtman and co-workers in 1984.

1988

He became a Fellow of the Royal Society (FRS) on 17 March 1988 and a Fellow of Birkbeck College on 2 March 2002.

He is also a Fellow of the Mexican Academy of Sciences.

2010

For his contributions to quasicrystals in 2010 Mackay was awarded the Buckley Prize, of the American Physical Society, with Dov Levine and Paul Steinhardt.

2011

The Nobel Prize in Chemistry was awarded in 2011 to Dan Shechtman for the discovery of quasicrystals.

Mackay has been interested in a generalised crystallography, which can describe not only crystals, but more complex structures and nanomaterials.

He has applied his ideas of minimal surfaces to graphitic materials, proposing, with Humberto Terrones, periodic arrangements of carbon atoms with negative Gaussian curvature known as Schwarzites, which are the periodic cousins of Buckminsterfullerenes

Mackay has compiled a book of scientific quotations and has co-authored a book on geometry with Eric Lord and S. Ranganathan.