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MacKenzie, James J. (James John), 1939-2016


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    • found: His Ill winds, c1988:t.p. (James J. MacKenzie)
    • found: Flavin, Christopher. The oil rollercoaster, 1987:title page (Jim MacKenzie)
    • found: Phone call to author, 3/15/89(James John MacKenzie; b. 12/24/39)
    • found: United States Congress. House Committee on Science. Subcommittee on Energy, U.S. energy security, options to decrease petroleum use in the transportation sector, hearing before the Subcommittee on Energy, Committee on Science, House of Representatives, One Hundred Seventh Congress, First Session, November 1, 2001, viewed February 5, 2001 via Google Books:Volume 4, page 80 (James J. MacKenzie is a senior associate in the World Resources Institute's Climate, Energy, and Pollution program; co-author of Frontiers of sustainability and Car trouble, author of Climate protection and the national interest, Oil as a finite resource, and The keys to the car; prior to joining WRI, he was a senior staff scientist at the Union of Concerned Scientists, where he authored articles and papers on nuclear power safety, conservation, solar energy, and global oil resources; from 1977 to 1981 Dr. MacKenzie was senior staff member for energy at the President's Council on Environmental Quality, where he co-authored reports on solar energy, conservation, and the global warming problem; while at CEQ he co-chaired the Impacts of Panel of the Domestic Policy Review, leading to President Carter's Solar message of 1979; between 1970 and 1977 MacKenzie was a member of the joint scientific staff of the Massachusetts and National Audubon Societies, where he wrote and lectured extensively on energy issues; he receive his Ph.D. in physics from the University of Minnesota, and completed post graduate work at Los Alamos and Argonne National Laboratories and MIT before joining the Audubon Society; he has been a professorial lecturer in the School of Advanced International Studies of the Johns Hopkins University, and a visiting fellow in the Woodrow Wilson National Fellowship Foundation program)
    • found: Boston Globe legacy pages, February 5, 2021(in obituary dated April 21, 2016 (James John MacKenzie, of Gaithersburg, MD died April 16 [2016]; born December 24, 1939 in Cambridge, Massachusetts; graduate froom Boston College, and earned his Ph.D. in Theoretical Nuclear Physics from the University of Minnesota; before his retirement, he was a senior associate at the World Resources Institute in the Climate, Energy and Pollution Program in Washington, D.C.; he had worked with Nobel prize winner Henry Kendall on issues such as nuclear reactor safety; he created beautiful black and white photographs, enjoyed woodworking, built and played musical instruments, and practiced and taught Aikido)
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    • 1989-03-17: new
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