Robert McCredie May (1938–2020)
Author of Stability and complexity in model ecosystems
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Works by Robert McCredie May
Associated Works
The Descent of Man, and Selection in Relation to Sex (1871) — Introduction, some editions — 1,820 copies, 15 reviews
A Better Future for the Planet Earth Vol II: Lectures by the Winners of the Blue Planet Prize 1997-2001 (2002) — Contributor — 3 copies
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Common Knowledge
- Legal name
- May, Robert McCredie
- Other names
- Baron May of Oxford
May, Bob - Birthdate
- 1938-01-08
- Date of death
- 2020-04-28
- Gender
- male
- Education
- University of Sydney (BS ∙ Physics and Mathematics ∙ 1956)
University of Sydney (PhD ∙ Physics ∙ 1959)
Harvard University (post-doc)
Sydney Boys' High School - Occupations
- scientist
Chief Scientific Adviser to the UK Government
President of the Royal Society - Organizations
- Princeton University (1973-1988)
Royal Society (1979)
Oxford University (1988-)
Imperial College London (1988-)
Australian Academy of Technological Sciences and Engineering (Fellow)
Australian Academy of Science (1991) (show all 12)
National Academy of Sciences (1992)
Academia Europaea (1994)
Committee on Climate Change (2008-2016)
Australian Institute of Building (2009)
British Science Association (2009)
Royal Society of New South Wales (2010) - Awards and honors
- Linnean Medal (1991)
Frink Medal (1995)
Crafoord Prize (1996)
Knight Bachelor (1996)
Balzan Prize (1998)
Order of Australia (1998) (show all 9)
Life Peerage (2001)
Order Of Merit (2002)
Copley Medal (2007) - Cause of death
- old age
Alzheimer's disease
pneumonia - Nationality
- Australia
- Birthplace
- Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
- Place of death
- Oxford, Oxfordshire, England, UK
- Associated Place (for map)
- Australia
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