Donald Mackay (scientist)

Donald Mackay, OC OOnt (born 30 October 1936[1]) is a Canadian scientist and engineer specializing in environmental chemistry.

For other people named Donald Mackay, see Donald Mackay (disambiguation).
Donald Mackay
Born (1936-10-30) 30 October 1936
Glasgow, Scotland
Scientific career
InstitutionsUniversity of Toronto
Trent University

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] Mackay has stressed that principles of good practice also need to be adopted for chemical assessments, especially in a regulatory context.[3]

In 2004, he 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]

References
  1. "Archived copy" (PDF). Archived (PDF) from the original on 2016-03-04. Retrieved 2013-02-23.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link)
  2. Mackay, Don (2021-08-26). "Fugacity and Multi-Media Models: A Personal Odyssey". SETAC Globe. Archived from the original on 2021-08-26. Retrieved 2021-08-26.
  3. Good modeling practice guidelines for applying multimedia models in chemical assessments, doi:10.1002/ieam.1299
  4. Order of Canada citation
  5. The Order of Ontario 2003 Recipients


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