George Owen Mackie

George O. Mackie
Born	(1929-10-20) October 20, 1929
Alma mater	University of Oxford
Spouse	Gillian
Children	5
Scientific career
Fields	Physiology Zoology
Institutions	University of Victoria University of Alberta
Website	web.uvic.ca/~mackie/

George Owen Mackie FRSC FRS (born October 20, 1929) is a British–Canadian professor emeritus of zoology at the University of Victoria. Prior to this, he worked at the University of Alberta Department of Zoology, which he left in approximately 1969. Much of his research focussed on invertebrate behavioural physiology. He was born in Lincolnshire, England on October 20, 1929. After obtaining a B.A. from the University of Oxford in 1953, he obtained an M.A. and a D. Phil from Oxford in 1957. In 1982, he was made a fellow of the Royal Society of Canada. In 1991, he was made a fellow of the Royal Society of London.