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Robert May, Baron May of Oxford

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Australian scientist who has been Chief Scientific Adviser to the UK Government (1936-2020)

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Robert McCredie May, Baron May of Oxford 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.

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2013honorary doctor of Harvard University
2011Dirac Medal for the Advancement of Physics
2007Copley Medal
2002Member of the Order of Merit
2001Blue Planet Prize
2001Fellow of the Australian Academy of Technology and Engineering
1998Balzan Prize
1998Companion of the Order of Australia
1996Crafoord Prize in Biosciences
1995Frink Medal
1994Josiah Willard Gibbs Lectureship
1991Linnean Medal
1991Corresponding Member of the Australian Academy of Science
1991Marsh Award for Conservation Biology
1991Fellow of the Australian Academy of Science
1985Croonian Medal and Lecture
1984Robert H. MacArthur Award
1979Fellow of the Royal Society
1968Edgeworth David Medal
1967Pawsey Medal
Lord Lewis Prize
Fellow of the Royal Society of New South Wales
Honorary Fellow of the Institute of Physics
Knight Bachelor
Honorary Fellow of the Zoological Society of London

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Robert McCredie May, Baron May of Oxford 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.

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United Kingdom
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Scientists
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Scientist
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deceased
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Lived 1936 to 2020 · aged 84
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