Robert MacKenzie, retired associate professor of mathematics at Indiana University, died peacefully at home Oct. 20, 2012. He was 92.
MacKenzie graduated with a bachelor’s degree in physics from Cal Tech in 1942. During World War II, he was a physicist at the Naval Ordnance Laboratory in Washington, D.C. In 1945, he received a graduate degree in mathematics from Indiana. He earned a Ph.D. in mathematics from Princeton in 1950.
He taught at Indiana from 1950 to 1990. An active member of the mathematics department, he was assistant chairman from 1962 to 1967 and managing editor of the Indiana Mathematics Journal from 1971 to 1977.
MacKenzie wrote three books and several articles on algebra and number theory, as well as a monograph on Henselian local rings. He also co-authored two books with mathematician Louis Auslander.
He was predeceased in 2006 by Mildred, his wife of 56 years. His survivors include a daughter, three grandchildren, and five great-grandchildren.
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