A physicist by training, he won the Crafoord Prize for "pioneering ecological research in theoretical analysis of the dynamics of populations, communities and ecosystems". He holds professorships in the Department of Zoology, University of Oxford and in Imperial College London.
Between 1995 and 2000, he was Chief Scientific Adviser to the UK Government and head of the Office of Science and Technology. He started his 5-year term as the president of the Royal Society in 2000.
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Profile of the 2001 Blue Planet Prize Recipient from the Asahi Glass Foundation (http://www.af-info.or.jp/eng/honor/hot/enr-may.html)
Lord (Robert) May of Oxford Biography (http://www.zoo.ox.ac.uk/newsite/groups/mathbiol/may-bio.html)
May studies various aspects of the way populations and communities are structured, and how they respond to change, both natural and human-induced.
In 1996 the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences awarded May the Crafoord Prize in the biosciences, with emphasis on ecology; the Crafoord Prize was established for basic research in fields not covered by the Nobel prizes.
In his position as Chief Scientific Advisor to the British government (1995-2000), May was deeply involved in many topics at the intersection of biology and public policy, ranging from debates over biodiversity to the epidemiology of AIDS.
Robert McCredie "Bob" May, Baron May of Oxford, OM, AC, FRS (born 8 January1936 in Australia) is a cross-bench member of the British House of Lords and was President of the Royal Society from 2000 to 2005.
May was able to make major advances in the field of population biology through the application of mathematical techniques.
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