Mackintosh, Neil Alison, 1900-1974

Neil Alison Mackintosh was born on 19 August 1900 in Hampstead, London. He was educated at Westminster School and Imperial College, London, and after graduation he acted as demonstrator in zoology. In 1924, he was appointed to the staff of the Discovery Investigations, establishing the Marine Biological Station at Grytviken, South Georgia, where he spent two periods, from 1924 to 1926 and from 1926 to 1927. He served with RRS William Scoresby for part of her first commission, marking whales off the Falkland Islands during April 1927.

Appointed chief scientific officer of the Discovery Investigations in 1929, Mackintosh participated in three oceanographic commissions in RRS Discovery II, from 1929-1931, 1933-1935 and 1937-1939, serving as chief scientist for the last two voyages. In 1949, when Discovery Investigations merged with the newly established National Institute of Oceanography, Mackintosh was appointed deputy director, a post he held until 1961 when he was put in charge of the Institute's Whale Research Unit in London, serving until his retirement in 1968.

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