Margaret MacVicar

Physicist, Academic

1943 – 1991

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Who was Margaret MacVicar?

Margaret L.A. MacVicar was an American physicist and educator. In addition to serving as MIT's Dean of Undergraduate Education, MacVicar is credited with founding the now widely emulated Undergraduate Research Opportunities Program 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."

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Born
Nov 20, 1943
Hamilton
Nationality
  • United States of America
Profession
Education
  • Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Lived in
  • United States of America
  • Hamilton
Died
Sep 30, 1991
Boston

Submitted
on July 23, 2013

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