Alan Lindsay Mackay Quotes
How can we have any new ideas or fresh outlooks when 90 per cent of all the scientists who have ever lived have still not died?
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| Birth: | 6th September, 1926 |
| Nationality: | British |
| Profession: | - |
Alan Lindsay Mackay FRS is a British crystallographer, born in Wolverhampton on 6 September 1926. 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. He became a Fellow of the Royal Society on 17 March 1988 and a Fellow of Birkbeck College on 2 March 2002.
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