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the son of George MacDonald, an engineer in Halley's Industrial Motors, a company run by his father-in-law. The family moved to
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awarded him an honorary professorship shortly before he died. He died of a rare neurological ailment in
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He married Moira Lawrie the daughter of his neighbour in Edinburgh and his teenage sweetheart.
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In 1950 he emigrated to Canada to work as Director of the Cryogenic Laboratory in
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Mendelssohn, K. (1964). "David Keith Chalmers MacDonald. 1920-1963".
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He was of a nervous disposition and had a morbid fear of moths.
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as an Instructor at the Military College of Science in Bury.
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is named in his honour. In authorship he is known as
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K. C. MacDonald
FRS
FRSE
FRSC
physicist
cryogenics
University of Manitoba
Glasgow
Edinburgh
Edinburgh Academy
Second World War
REME
Ottawa
Royal Society of Edinburgh
John F. Allen
Edward R. Andrew
Dirk ter Haar
Max Born
Royal Society of London
Royal Society of Canada
University of Ottawa
Ottawa


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