George Owen Mackie

George Owen Mackie FRSC FRS 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 approximatwly 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 Oxford University in 1953, he obtained an M.A. and a D. Phil from Oxford University 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.