Robert May#
| Sadly, this member passed away. | |
| Membership Number: | 1564 |
| Membership type: | ORDINARY |
| Section: | ECOLOGY AND EVOLUTION |
| Elected: | 1994 |
| Main Country of Residence: | UNITED KINGDOM |
Robert May passed away April 28, 2020.
Positions Held
- Since 2005 Emeritus Professor at Oxford University and Imperial College London
- Since 2005 Fellow of Merton College, Oxford
- 2000 - 2005 President of the Royal Society
- 1995 - 2000 Chief Scientific Advisor to the UK Government and head of the Office of Science and Technology
- 1988 - 1995 Royal Society Research Professorship jointly at Imperial College London and the University of Oxford
- 1973 - 1988 Professor of Zoology at Princeton University
- 1969 - 1972 Professor in Theoretical Physics at the University of Sydney
- 1962 - 1969 Senior Lecturer and Reader in Theoretical Physics at the University of Sydney
- 1959 - 1961 Gordon MacKay Lecturer in Applied Mathematics at Harvard University
Fields of Scholarship
- Animal population dynamics
- Biodiversity
- Theoretical ecology
Honours and Awards
- 1979 Fellowship of the Royal Society
- 1980 Weldon Memorial Prize
- 1984 MacArthur Foundation Award
- 1990 Honorary degree of Uppsala University
- 1991 Overseas Member of the Australian Academy of Science
- 1991 Medal of the Linnean Society of London
- 1992 Marsh Christian Prize
- 1992 Foreign Member of the United States National Academy of Sciences
- 1994 Member of the Academia Europaea
- 1995 Honorary degree Sydney University
- 1995 Zoological Society of London Frink Medal
- 1996 Royal Swedish Academy’s Crafoord Prize
- 1996 Honorary degree Princeton University
- 1996 Honorary degree of Yale University
- 1996 Crafoord Prize
- 1996 Knighthood
- 1998 Companion of the Order of Australia
- 1998 Balzan Prize
- 2001 Life Peer
- 2002 Order of Merit
- 2003 Honorary degree of Eidgenössische Technische Hochschule Zürich
- 2004 Honorary degree of Oxford University
- 2007 Copley Medal (Royal Society’s oldest and most prestigious award)
- 2009 Honorary Fellow of the Australian Institute of Building (HonFAIB)
- 2010 Fellow of the Royal Society of New South Wales
- 2012 IEEM Medal
- 2013 Honorary degree of Harvard University
- 2013 IFABS Lifetime Achievement Award
