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Mackenzie, John James
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Dates of existence
1847-1879
History
John James (J.J.) MacKenzie was a graduate of Dalhousie College, earning his BA in 1871 and his MA in 1872. He was born in Greenhill, Pictou County, in 1847. From 1869-1872 he taught at Pictou Academy. He moved to Germany in 1872, earning his PhD at Leipzig University in 1876. In 1877 he returned to Halifax to take up an appointment at Dalhousie as Chair of Physics, a position he held for less than two years, as he died of pneumonia in 1879 at age thirty-one. In addition to teaching, J.J. MacKenzie delivered a popular series of public science lectures in Halifax and was an active promoter of the Technical Institute.