Ralph Nelson Whitfield McKenzie (born October 20, 1941) is an American

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ian, and

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ist. He received his doctorate from the

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in 1967. He is a

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retrieved 2016-04-27.

Selected works

*McKenzie with David Hobby: The structure of finite algebras, AMS 1988 *McKenzie with Ralph Freese: Commutator Theory for Congruence Modular Varieties, London Math. Society Lecture Notes, Cambridge University Press 1987

References

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