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Michael Mackey

Michael Mackey

Canadian-American scientist

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Michael C. Mackey FRSC is a Canadian-American biomathematician and Professor in the Department of Physiology of McGill University in Montreal, Quebec, Canada who holds the Joseph Morley Drake Emeritus Chair.[1][2]

Biography

He received a Bachelor of Arts (BA, 1963) in Mathematics from the University of Kansas and completed a Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D., 1968) in Physiology and Biophysics at the University of Washington.[1]

He became a professor in the Department of Physiology at McGill University, as well as Director of the Centre for Applied Mathematics in Bioscience and Medicine and the Mathematical Physiology Laboratory.[3]

In 1999, he was elected a fellow[4] of the Royal Society of Canada in the Academy of Science. He is a Fellow[5] of the American Physical Society (2006), Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics[6] (SIAM, 2009) and the Society for Mathematical Biology[7] (2017). He was awarded a Forschungspreis by the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation[8] at Bremen University in 1993, and a Doctorat honoris causa by the Universite de Lyon[9] in 2010 and the University of Silesia[10] in 2019, and was the Leverhulme Professor of Mathematical Biology at University of Oxford in 2001-2002.

Research

His research focuses on the development of mathematical models, such as the Mackey-Glass equations,[11] to describe physiological processes at the cellular and molecular levels as well as foundational questions in physics related to the nature of irreversibility, entropy, and the arrow of time. He developed,[12] with Leon Glass, the concept of dynamical disease in which a parameter change in a physiological control system is hypothesized to lead to pathological behavior, and the use of chaos theory to investigate such possibilities. [1]


References

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    Michael C. Mackey - Professor. Department of Physiology. McGill University. Consulted 6 Feb. 2019.
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    Named/Endowed Chair Appointments at McGill University. Office of the Provost and Vice-Principal (Academic). McGill University. Consulted on 7 Feb. 2019.
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    Michael C. Mackey , Ph.D., FRSC. Mathematical Physiology Laboratory. McGill University. Consulted on 6 Feb. 2019.
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    "Fellows". Royal Society of Canada.
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    "Fellows". American Physical Society.
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    "Fellows". Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics.
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    "Fellows". Society for Mathematical Biology.
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    "Humboldtians". Alexander von Humboldt Stiftung.
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    Mackey, Michael (19 November 2010). "Vingt troisièmes entretiens du Centre Jacques Cartier".
  10. [10]
    Mackey, Michael (28 December 2020). "Silesian University Honorary Degrees".
  11. [11]
    Hans-Otto Walther (2020). "The impact on mathematics of the paper Oscillation and Chaos in Physiological Control Systems by Mackey and Glass in Science, 1977". arXiv:2001.09010 [math.DS].
  12. [12]
    McGill Reporter (25 July 2017). "Physiology profs appointed Mathematical Biology fellows". McGill.
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