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Robert McCredie May, Baron May of Oxford (8 January 1936 – 28 April 2020) was an Australian scientist who was Chief Scientific Adviser to the UK Government, President of the Royal Society, [8] and a professor at the University of Sydney and Princeton University.
From 1995 to 2000, May was chief scientific adviser to the UK government. With his direct style (he never shied away from blunt phrases), May established the role as a high-profile pub -
- A Natural Polymath
- A Sharp, Penetrating Mind
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From 1988 until 1995, Lord May held a Royal Society Research Professorship jointly at Imperial and the University of Oxford, after which he became Chief Scientific Adviser to the UK Government (1995–2000), retaining a position at Imperial and being made Fellow of Imperial Collegein 1997. A natural polymath, he advised ministers on the handling of a...
In 2000, Lord May was nominated to one of the most prestigious posts in science, the presidency of the Royal Society, the UK’s national academy for science, where he stayed until 2005. Lord May was appointed as a founding member of the UK’s independent Committee on Climate Changein 2008, along with fellow Imperial professors Sir Brian Hoskins, Jim ...
Those who knew Lord May at Imperial are invited to submit their tributes and memories to be published in the comments section below. Professor Sir Gordon Conway FRS FREng, Professor of International Development at Imperial College London and formerly President of the Rockefeller Foundation and President of the Royal Geographical Society, said: “I f...
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May 7, 2020 · Robert May – affectionately known as Bob by his friends and colleagues, but whose official title was Lord May, Baron of Oxford – sadly passed away on 28 April 2020, aged 84. He has since been described by those who knew him best as a “gifted polymath” and a “true giant” among scientists.
Friends and colleagues pay tribute to gifted polymath whose achievements spanned biology, physics and public policy. Pioneering Australian scientist Robert May, whose work in biology led to the development of chaos theory, has died at age 84.
May 12, 2020 · Following McArthur’s untimely death, May moved to Princeton University in New Jersey to succeed him as Class of 1877 Professor of Zoology.
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Sep 24, 2020 · Robert M. “Bob” May, Lord May of Oxford, O.M., who was the second recipient of the Ecological Society of America’s Robert H. MacArthur Award, passed away at the age of 84 in Oxford, UK, on April 28, after a long illness.
