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About the authors Keith “Mac” McLaren The color science community lost a distinguished leader with the tragic death of Keith “Mac” McLaren on August 29, 1990. Born on July 9, 1920, Mac devoted his life to the quantification and understanding of industrial coloration and color perception. After completing his wartime degree at Leeds University, Mac joined Imperial Chemical Industries in their Dyestuffs Division and represented them for more than 30 years on many industrial committees. Then, in 1977, Mac became the Director of Instrumental Colour Systems, Ltd., where he was actively involved in the development and efficient use of color-measurement instruments. Later he became a consultant to that company. Mac was a leading figure in the Society of Dyers and Colourists, where his achievements have been recognized by the gold medal of the Society and the research medal of the Worshipful Company of Dyers. For his contributions to the study of color-fastness and color measurement in textiles, Mac was selected an Honorary Fellow of the Society in 1970. In addition to being active in the Society of Dyers and Colourists, Mac contributed substantially to the Colorimetry Volume 15, Number 6, December 1990 Committee of the Commission Internationale de 1’Eclairage (CIE), and especially to the CIE recommendations on uniform color spaces and color difference equations. He also served as Chairman of the Colour Group (Great Britain). During his career Mac was the author or coauthor of over 50 publications, including his well known book, The Colour Science of Dyes and Pigments (Second Edition, Adam Hilger, 1986). He has contributed a lively discussion on such issues as the nomenclature of metamerism and the industrial usefulness of measuring acceptable as opposed to perceptible color differences. He published many Letters to the Editor in this journal; his titled papers in the journal are noted ‘below.l4 Those of us who knew Mac personally will remember him for his formidable independence, for his enthusiastic and freely given advice, and for his enjoyment of a lively debate. For example, he always added life to the meetings of the Association Internationale de Couleur (AIC), where some of us from this side of the Atlantic met him who would not otherwise have had the opportunity. He also gave delightful discussions of rhombic dodecahedra and shade sortCCC 0361-2317/90/060309-01$4.00 309 http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Color Research & Application Wiley

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Copyright © 1990 Wiley Periodicals, Inc., A Wiley Company
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Keith “Mac” McLaren The color science community lost a distinguished leader with the tragic death of Keith “Mac” McLaren on August 29, 1990. Born on July 9, 1920, Mac devoted his life to the quantification and understanding of industrial coloration and color perception. After completing his wartime degree at Leeds University, Mac joined Imperial Chemical Industries in their Dyestuffs Division and represented them for more than 30 years on many industrial committees. Then, in 1977, Mac became the Director of Instrumental Colour Systems, Ltd., where he was actively involved in the development and efficient use of color-measurement instruments. Later he became a consultant to that company. Mac was a leading figure in the Society of Dyers and Colourists, where his achievements have been recognized by the gold medal of the Society and the research medal of the Worshipful Company of Dyers. For his contributions to the study of color-fastness and color measurement in textiles, Mac was selected an Honorary Fellow of the Society in 1970. In addition to being active in the Society of Dyers and Colourists, Mac contributed substantially to the Colorimetry Volume 15, Number 6, December 1990 Committee of the Commission Internationale de 1’Eclairage (CIE), and especially to the CIE recommendations on uniform color spaces and color difference equations. He also served as Chairman of the Colour Group (Great Britain). During his career Mac was the author or coauthor of over 50 publications, including his well known book, The Colour Science of Dyes and Pigments (Second Edition, Adam Hilger, 1986). He has contributed a lively discussion on such issues as the nomenclature of metamerism and the industrial usefulness of measuring acceptable as opposed to perceptible color differences. He published many Letters to the Editor in this journal; his titled papers in the journal are noted ‘below.l4 Those of us who knew Mac personally will remember him for his formidable independence, for his enthusiastic and freely given advice, and for his enjoyment of a lively debate. For example, he always added life to the meetings of the Association Internationale de Couleur (AIC), where some of us from this side of the Atlantic met him who would not otherwise have had the opportunity. He also gave delightful discussions of rhombic dodecahedra and shade sortCCC 0361-2317/90/060309-01$4.00 309

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