Robert May, Baron May of Oxford
The Lord May of Oxford | |
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| Born | Robert McCredie May 8 January 1936[1] |
| Died | 28 April 2020 (aged 84) |
| Citizenship | Australia |
| Alma mater | University of Sydney |
| Spouse |
Judith Feiner (m. 1962) |
| Awards | |
| Scientific career | |
| Fields | Theoretical ecology |
| Institutions | Imperial College London University of Oxford Harvard University |
| Thesis | Investigations towards an understanding of superconductivity (1959) |
| Website | www |
Robert McCredie May, Baron May of Oxford, OM, AC, FRS, FAA, FTSE, FRSN, HonFAIB (8 January 1936 – 28 April 2020) was an Australian scientist. He was President of the Royal Society from 2000 to 2005.[3] He is a professor at the University of Sydney and Princeton University. He was a crossbench (independent) member of the House of Lords from 2001 until his retirement in 2017.
May was a Fellow of Merton College, Oxford, and an appointed member of the council of the British Science Association. He was also a member of the advisory council for the Campaign for Science and Engineering.[4] He was elected a member of the Academia Europaea in 1994.[5]
May died on 28 April 2020 at a nursing home in Oxford of pneumonia caused by Alzheimer's disease, aged 84.[6][7]
References
[change | change source]- ↑ MAY OF OXFORD, Baron. Who's Who. Vol. 2017 (online Oxford University Press ed.). A & C Black, an imprint of Bloomsbury Publishing plc.
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- ↑ "List of Fellows". raeng.org.uk. Royal Academy of Engineering. Archived from the original on 2016-06-08. Retrieved 2019-04-27.
- ↑ Bradbury, Jane (2000). "Sir Robert May: A new face at the Royal Society". The Lancet. 356 (9227): 406–736. doi:10.1016/S0140-6736(05)73556-X. PMID 10972381. S2CID 34829440.
- ↑ "Advisory Council of the Campaign for Science and Engineering". Archived from the original on 28 August 2010. Retrieved 11 February 2011.
- ↑ "Robert May". Academia Europaea. Archived from the original on 28 March 2019.
- ↑ "Robert May, former UK chief scientist and chaos theory pioneer, dies aged 84". the Guardian. 2020-04-29. Retrieved 2020-04-29.
- ↑ "Robert May, an Uncontainable 'Big Picture' Scientist, Dies at 84". The New York Times. 12 May 2020. Retrieved 12 May 2020.
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