Robert Macintosh

Sir
Robert Macintosh
Macintosh and his wife
Born
Robert Reynolds Macintosh

(1897-10-17)17 October 1897
Died28 August 1989(1989-08-28) (aged 91)
Other namesRewi Rawhiti (Maori)
EducationWaitaki Boys' High School,
Guy's Hospital Medical School
Occupationanaesthetist
Known forprofessor of anaesthetics at University of Oxford, first professor of anaesthetics outside the United States
Notable workdesigned equipment that bears his name: a laryngoscope, an anaesthetic vaporiser, spray and endobronchial tube
SpouseDorothy Manning
FatherCharles Nicholson Macintosh
Awardsknighted 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.

  1. ^ "Macintosh blade". AnaesthesiaUK. Retrieved 19 February 2009.