Archie McIntyre was one of the founders of modern neuroscience in Australia. A medical graduate from Sydney University, his early research addressed the physiology of eye movements, uterine muscle and aviation. After the war, as a Rockefeller Fellow, he studied tendon reflexes with Herbert Gasser in New York, continuing this work as Nuffield scholar in Cambridge. He then accepted Jack Eccles’s offer of a senior lectureship in the physiology department at the University of Otago, becoming Head of Department there in 1952. In 1962 he was appointed professor of physiology at the new Monash University, Melbourne, and subsequently held a number of key national positions in Australian scientific institutions. He is best known for his work in neuroscience, publishing three landmark papers in 1960 on cutaneous sensory receptors. He is widely credited with designing the microelectrode equipment used in the work that brought Eccles the Nobel Prize in 1970.

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