D. K. C. MacDonald

Not to be confused with K. C. MacDonald.

D. K. C. MacDonald
FRS FRSE FRSC
Head, Low Temperature and Solid State Physics Group, National Research Council, Canada
In office
1951 – 28 July 1963
Personal details
Born
David Keith Chalmers MacDonald

24 July 1920
Glasgow, Scotland
Died28 July 1963(1963-07-28) (aged 43)
Canada
OccupationPhysicist, cryogenicist

David Keith Chalmers MacDonald (24 July 1920 – 28 July 1963) was a Scottish-born metal physicist, cryogenicist and scientific author. He is considered as one of the founding fathers of modern cryogenics.

The MacDonald Memorial Lecture at the University of Manitoba is named in his honour.[1] In authorship he is known as D. K. C. MacDonald, but friends knew him as Keith MacDonald.

  1. ^ "University of Manitoba - Canadian Materials Science Conference: Conference - History". umanitoba.ca. Archived from the original on 26 May 2023. Retrieved 11 February 2018.