Robert May, Baron May of Oxford

The Right Honourable The Lord May of Oxford OM AC FRS HonFREng FAA FTSE FRSN
May in 2009

59th President of the Royal Society
In office 2000–2005
Preceded by	Aaron Klug
Succeeded by	Martin Rees

Personal details
Born	Robert McCredie May (1936-01-08)8 January 1936 Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
Died	28 April 2020(2020-04-28) (aged 84) Oxford, Oxfordshire, England
Citizenship	Australia

Alma mater	University of Sydney
Known for	Logistic map, stability-complexity studies
Spouse(s)	Judith Feiner, Lady May (m. 1962)
Awards	Crafoord Prize (1996) Balzan Prize Copley Medal UNSW Dirac Medal (2011) Life Peerage Order of Merit Companion of the Order of Australia Pawsey Medal (1967) Knight Bachelor Fellow of the Royal Society Fellow of the Royal Academy of Engineering (2005)
Scientific career
Fields	Theoretical ecology
Institutions	Imperial College London University of Oxford Harvard University
Thesis	Investigations towards an understanding of superconductivity (1959)
Doctoral students	George Sugihara
Other notable students	Martin Nowak (postdoc)

Website	www.zoo.ox.ac.uk/people/view/may_r.htm

Robert McCredie May, Baron May of Oxford (8 January 1936 – 28 April 2020) 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.

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.