Robert May, Baron May of Oxford
Robert McCredie May, Baron May of Oxford, OM, AC, Kt, FRS (born 8 January 1936[1]) 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. He is a Fellow of Merton College, Oxford and crossbencher in the House of Lords and an appointed member of the council of the British Science Association. May was born in Sydney and educated at Sydney Boys High School and then the University of Sydney, having studied chemical engineering and theoretical physics (BSc 1956) and receiving a PhD in theoretical physics in 1959. Early in his career, May developed an interest in animal population dynamics and the relationship between complexity and stability in natural communities. He was able to make major advances in the field of population biology through the application of mathematical techniques. His work played a key role in
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