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Biography
George Mackey's father was William Sturges Mackey and his mother was Dorothy Frances Allison. The family moved from St Louis to Florida then settled in Houston in 1926.Mackey ricafort biography of george
Many mathematicians know that mathematics is the subject for them at a young age but Mackey struggled to find the right topic for him. On the one hand there was pressure from his father to become a businessman. However when he was studying at high school he was inspired by a chemistry book which he was studying and so, as a compromise between different topics that interested him, he entered the Rice Institute in Houston to study for a degree in chemical engineering.
Changes of direction did not come easily to Mackey who described them as a "soul struggle", but he decided to move from the chemical engineering course to study physics. However, he still had not found exactly what he was looking far.
As he wrote many years later (see for example [1] and [2]):-
I was disturbed by the way that mathematics