Robert May, Baron May of Oxford
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The Right Honourable The Lord May of Oxford OM AC FRS FAA FTSE FRSN |
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| Personal details | |
| Born |
8 January 1936 Sydney, Australia |
| Citizenship | Australia |
| Residence | England |
| Scientific career | |
| Fields | Theoretical ecology |
| Institutions |
Imperial College London University of Oxford |
| Alma mater | University of Sydney |
| Notable students |
George Sugihara Angela McLean Martin Nowak Sunetra Gupta |
| Notable awards |
Crafoord Prize (1996) Balzan Prize Copley Medal Life Peerage Order of Merit Companion of the Order of Australia Knight Bachelor Fellow of the Royal Society Honorary Fellow of the Royal Academy of Engineering (2005) |
Robert McCredie May, Baron May of Oxford, OM, AC, FRS, FAA, FTSE, FRSN, FREng (born 8 January 1936) is an Australian scientist who has been Chief Scientific Adviser to the UK Government, President of the Royal Society, and a Professor at Sydney and Princeton. He now holds joint professorships at Oxford and Imperial College London.
May is a Fellow of Merton College, Oxford, a crossbencher in the House of Lords, and an appointed member of the council of the British Science Association. He is also a member of the Advisory Council for the Campaign for Science and Engineering.
May was born in Sydney and educated at Sydney Boys High School. He then attended the University of Sydney, where he studied chemical engineering and theoretical physics (BSc 1956) and received a PhD in theoretical physics in 1959. He is a current Patron of the Sydney High School Old Boys Union.
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