Donald Angus MacKenzie (born 3 May 1950) is a Professor of Sociology at the

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. His work constitutes a crucial contribution to the field of

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. He has also developed research in the field of social studies of finance. He has undertaken widely cited work on the history of statistics,

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and finance, among other things. In August 2006, MacKenzie was awarded the Chancellor's Award from

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and

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of the

, for his contributions to the field of science and technology studies. He is also the winner of the 1993 Robert K. Merton Award of the

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and the 2005 John Desmond Bernal Prize of the Society for Social Studies of Science among many others.

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References

External links

Donald MacKenzie's faculty homepage
at the University of Edinburgh
Donald MacKenzie's contributions
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"The Political Economy of Carbon Trading"
1950 births Academics of the University of Edinburgh Alumni of the University of Edinburgh British sociologists Economic sociologists Fellows of the Academy of Social Sciences Fellows of the British Academy Fellows of the Royal Society of Edinburgh Formal methods people Sociologists of science Living people {{UK-sociologist-stub