John Edwin MacKenzie FRSE OBE (1868-1955) was a Scottish chemist.
He was educated at Larchfield Academy in Helensburgh, where his father was headmaster.
[2] In 1905 he moved to Victoria Jubilee Technical Institute in Bombay, India.
This did not suit him and he returned to Britain in 1907 and began lecturing at the University of Edinburgh.
His proposers were Sir James Walker, Leonard Dobbin, Cargill Gilston Knott and Arthur Robinson.