Editing George Mackey (section)

==Honours and students==
Mackey was among the first five recipients of [[Putnam exam|William Lowell Putnam]] fellowships in 1938.<ref name="MMA">{{cite web|title=Putnam Competition Individual and Team Winners |url=http://www.maa.org/programs/maa-awards/putnam-competition-individual-and-team-winners |publisher=[[Mathematical Association of America]]|access-date=December 9, 2021}}</ref> He received the [[Leroy P. Steele Prize]] in 1975 for his article ''Ergodic theory and its significance for statistical mechanics and probability theory''.<ref>{{cite journal
| first1=George W. | last1=Mackey
| title=Ergodic theory and its significance for statistical mechanics and probability theory
| journal=[[Advances in Mathematics]]
| volume=12
| issue=2
| year=1974
| pages=178–268
| doi=10.1016/S0001-8708(74)80003-4 | doi-access=free}}</ref>

Mackey was an elected member of the [[American Academy of Arts and Sciences]] the [[National Academy of Sciences]] and the [[American Philosophical Society]].

[[Lawrence G. Brown]], [[Paul Chernoff]], [[Edward George Effros|Edward G. Effros]], [[Calvin C. Moore|Calvin Moore]], [[Richard Palais]], [[Caroline Series]], [[John Wermer]] and [[Robert Zimmer]] have been doctoral students of Mackey. [[Andrew Gleason]] had no PhD, but considered Mackey to be his advisor.