**David MacKay**, was chief scientific adviser to the UK Department of Energy and Climate Change until 2014, professor of engineering in the department of engineering at the University of Cambridge, and author of the book _[[Without the Hot Air]]_, which is on our [[recommended reading]] list. He passed away in [April 2016](http://itila.blogspot.de/2015/08/unexpected-signs-of-malignancy.html). ## References ## David MacKay, [homepage](http://www.inference.phy.cam.ac.uk/mackay/). David MacKay, [autobiography](http://www.inference.phy.cam.ac.uk/mackay/bio.html). [David MacKay](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_J._C._MacKay), Wikipedia. category: people