R. M. May

The Right Honourable The Lord May of Oxford OM AC FRS FAA FTSE FRSN
Born	Robert McCredie May (1936-01-08) 8 January 1936 (age 81) Sydney, Australia
Residence	England
Citizenship	Australia
Fields	Theoretical ecology
Institutions	Imperial College London University of Oxford Harvard University
Alma mater	University of Sydney
Thesis	Investigations towards an understanding of superconductivity (1959)
Notable students	George Sugihara Angela McLean Martin Nowak (postdoc) Sunetra Gupta
Notable awards	Crafoord Prize (1996) Balzan Prize Copley Medal Life Peerage Order of Merit Companion of the Order of Australia Knight Bachelor Fellow of the Royal Society Fellow of the Royal Academy of Engineering(2005)
Spouse	Judith Feiner (m. 1962)
Website www.zoo.ox.ac.uk/people/view/may_r.htm

Robert McCredie May, Baron May of Oxford OM AC FRS FAA FTSE FRSN (born 8 January 1936) is an Australian scientist who has been Chief Scientific Adviser to the UK Government, President of the Royal Society, and a Professor at the University of Sydney and Princeton University. He now holds joint professorships at 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 is a Fellow of Merton College, Oxford, and an appointed member of the council of the British Science Association. He is also a member of the Advisory Council for the Campaign for Science and Engineering.

May was born in Sydney and educated at Sydney Boys High School. He then attended the University of Sydney, where he studied chemical engineering and theoretical physics (BSc 1956) and received a PhD in theoretical physics in 1959.

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