Margaret MacVicar
| Margaret L.A. MacVicar | |
|---|---|
| Born | November 20, 1943 Hamilton, Ontario, Canada |
| Died | September 30, 1991 (aged 47) Boston, MA |
| Residence | United States |
| Nationality | American |
| Alma mater | MIT |
| Known for | Undergraduate Research Opportunities Program, MIT Dean for Undergraduate Education |
| Scientific career | |
| Fields | Metallurgy |
| Institutions | MIT |
Margaret L.A. (Scotty) MacVicar (November 20, 1943 – September 30, 1991) was an American physicist and educator. In addition to serving as MIT's Dean of Undergraduate Education (1985–1990), MacVicar is credited with founding the now widely emulated Undergraduate Research Opportunities Program (UROP) in 1969. MacVicar received her undergraduate and graduate degrees at MIT and joined the faculty, giving her the rare distinction of being a "MIT lifer."
MacVicar was born on November 20, 1943 in Hamilton, Ontario to George and Elizabeth MacVicar. Her family relocated to Flint, Michigan in 1946 where she lived until she graduated from high school in 1961. Because she had been taking classes at a local junior college as a high school student, a local retired General Motors senior executive offered to help defray the costs of attending MIT.
At MIT, she was among the first women to live at the McCormick Hall women's dormitory which opened in the fall of 1963. She received a bachelor of science degree in physics in 1964 (though she considered herself affiliated with the class of 1965, with which she entered MIT) and a doctor of science (Sc.D) degree in metallurgy and materials science in 1967. Between 1967 and 1969, she worked as a post-doctoral fellow in the Royal Society Mond section of Cavendish Laboratory at the University of Cambridge. She joined the Department of Physics at MIT in 1969 where her research investigated high-temperature metal and ceramic superconductors, single crystal and thin-film materials research, and detecting corrosion kinetics using superconducting magnetometry.
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