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) |
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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]
May died on 28 April 2020 at a nursing home in Oxford of pneumonia caused by Alzheimer's disease, aged 84.[5][6]