Sir Robert Macintosh | |
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Born | Robert Reynolds Macintosh 17 October 1897 |
Died | 28 August 1989 | (aged 91)
Other names | Rewi Rawhiti (Maori) |
Education | Waitaki Boys' High School, Guy's Hospital Medical School |
Occupation | anaesthetist |
Known for | professor of anaesthetics at University of Oxford, first professor of anaesthetics outside the United States |
Notable work | designed equipment that bears his name: a laryngoscope, an anaesthetic vaporiser, spray and endobronchial tube |
Spouse | Dorothy Manning |
Father | Charles Nicholson Macintosh |
Awards | knighted in 1955 |
Sir Robert Reynolds Macintosh (17 October 1897 – 28 August 1989, Oxford, England) was a New Zealand-born British anaesthetist.[1] He was the first professor of anaesthetics outside the United States.