!!!Robert May \\ %%(float:left;margin-left:20px;margin-right:30px;) [{Image src='may_r.jpg' caption='' height='200' alt='Robert May'}]%% [{AcadMemberDataPlugin}] \\ \\ \\ \\ 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__ [{AcadMemberFOScholarshipPlugin}] \\ __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|http:///www2.le.ac.uk/offices/press/press-releases/2013/july/former-president-of-royal-society-and-chief-scientific-adviser-honoured-with-lifetime-achievement-award] \\ \\ %%columns-900 %%coolborders-140-70 [{Image src='User/paper_content_pencil_48.png' width='48px' class='image_left'}] [Curriculum Vitae |User/May_Robert/CV] %% ---- %%coolborders-140-70 [{Image src='User/book_48.png' class='image_left'}] [Publication list|User/May_Robert/Publications] %% ---- %%coolborders-140-70 [{Image src='User/camera_noflash_48.png' width='48px' class='image_left'}] [Highlights of my work and anecdotes|User/May_Robert/Highlight] %% ---- %%coolborders-140-70 [{Image src='User/database_48.png' class='image_left'}] -->[Other information|User/May_Robert/OtherInformation] %% %% [{ALLOW view All}] [{ALLOW edit rmay}] [{ALLOW upload rmay}] [{ALLOW comment All}]