Education
MacKenzie received his Doctor of Philosophy under Ernest Lawrence at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory.
MacKenzie received his Doctor of Philosophy under Ernest Lawrence at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory.
He was a professor of physics at University of California, Los Angeles, where he and Regional Richardson built University of California, Los Angeles"s first cyclotron and later a bevatron. MacKenzie devised MacKenzie buckets which are plasma sources created by lining vacuum chamber walls with permanent magnets of alternating polarity to suppress plasma electron losses, that are widely used to this day. He later traveled around the world, helping to troubleshoot various country"s cyclotron problems.
Later in life, he studied plasma physics and dark matter.