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Professor W. S. MacKenzie, 1920–2001

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William Scott MacKenzie was born in 1920 in Kilbarchan, Renfrewshire where his father was a minister in the Presbyterian Church. Although he often quoted his father’s advocacy of brevity ("As a preacher, you save no souls after the first five minutes"), Mac was the most sociable of men and could never break off a story, a tutorial or, best-of-all, an argument, before it had reached its natural conclusion.

Mac went up to St. Andrews before the Second World War where he initially studied Mathematics (acquiring a significant student medal), Chemistry, Physics and Latin. When war broke out he entered the Royal Artillery where he served on the Coastal Batteries and later, after D-Day, with the Allied Forces in Europe.

After leaving the army, Mac returned to St. Andrews where he opted for Geology and, with his strong background in physical sciences, was enthused by the mineralogy and petrology teaching of Harold Drever. A year in St. Andrews as a research student working on the aureole . . . [Full Text of this Article]