Robert May, Baron May of Oxford
1936
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2020
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country of citizenship: United Kingdom, United States of America
languages spoken, written or signed: English
educated at: University of Sydney
occupation: physicist, engineer, zoologist, university teacher, ecologist, politician
award received: Copley Medal, Lord Lewis Prize, Balzan Prize, Blue Planet Prize, Silver Dirac Medal for the Advancement of Theoretical Physics, Josiah Willard Gibbs Lectureship, Robert H. MacArthur Award, Frink Medal, Linnean Medal, Member of the Order of Merit, Croonian Lecture, Corresponding Member of the Australian Academy of Science, Fellow of the Australian Academy of Technological Sciences and Engineering, Fellow of the Royal Society of New South Wales, Crafoord Prize in Biosciences, honorary doctor of Harvard University, Edgeworth David Medal, Pawsey Medal, Honorary Fellow of the Institute of Physics, Fellow of the Royal Society, Companion of the Order of Australia, Knight Bachelor, Marsh Award for Conservation Biology, Fellow of the Australian Academy of Science
Robert McCredie May, Baron May of Oxford, HonFAIB (8 January 1936 – 28 April 2020) was an Australian scientist who was Chief Scientific Adviser to the UK Government, President of the Royal Society, and a professor at the University of Sydney and Princeton University. He held joint professorships at the University of Oxford and Imperial College London. He was also a crossbench 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. Source: Wikipedia (en)
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