Back روبرت ماي Arabic روبرت ماى ARZ رابرت می، بارون می اکسفورد AZB Robert May, Baron May of Oxford Danish Robert May German Robert May (Oxfordeko May Baroia) Basque رابرت می، بارون می اکسفورد Persian Robert May (biologi) Finnish Robert May French Robert McCredie May Irish
The Lord May of Oxford | |
|---|---|
.jpg) 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 8 January 1936[1] Sydney, New South Wales, Australia |
| Died | 28 April 2020 (aged 84) Oxford, Oxfordshire, England |
| Citizenship | Australia |
| Alma mater | University of Sydney |
| Known for | Logistic map,[6] stability-complexity studies[7] |
| Spouse(s) |
Judith Feiner, Lady May
(m. 1962) |
| Awards | |
| Scientific career | |
| Fields | Theoretical ecology |
| Institutions | Imperial College London University of Oxford Harvard University |
| Thesis | Investigations towards an understanding of superconductivity (1959) |
| Doctoral students | |
| Other notable students | Martin Nowak (postdoc)[5] |
| Website | www |
Robert McCredie May, Baron May of Oxford, OM AC FRS HonFREng FAA FTSE FRSN HonFAIB (8 January 1936 – 28 April 2020) was an Australian scientist who was Chief Scientific Adviser to the UK Government, President of the Royal Society,[8] 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.[9]
- ^ a b "MAY OF OXFORD". Who's Who. Vol. 2017 (online Oxford University Press ed.). Oxford: A & C Black. (Subscription or UK public library membership required.)
- ^ "List of Fellows". raeng.org.uk. Royal Academy of Engineering.
- ^ Sugihara, George; May, Robert (1990). "Nonlinear forecasting as a way of distinguishing chaos from measurement error in time series". Nature. 344 (6268): 734–741. Bibcode:1990Natur.344..734S. doi:10.1038/344734a0. PMID 2330029. S2CID 4370167.
- ^ Sugihara, George; May, Robert; Ye, Hao; Hsieh, Chih-hao; Deyle, Ethan; Fogarty, Michael; Munch, Stephan (2012). "Detecting Causality in Complex Ecosystems". Science. 338 (6106): 496–500. Bibcode:2012Sci...338..496S. doi:10.1126/science.1227079. PMID 22997134. S2CID 19749064.
- ^ Tilman, D.; May, R. M.; Lehman, C. L.; Nowak, M. A. (1994). "Habitat destruction and the extinction debt". Nature. 371 (6492): 65. Bibcode:1994Natur.371...65T. doi:10.1038/371065a0. S2CID 4308409.
- ^ Gravel, Dominique; Massol, François; Leibold, Mathew A. (2016). "Stability and complexity in model meta-ecosystems". Nature Communications. 7: 12457. Bibcode:2016NatCo...712457G. doi:10.1038/ncomms12457. PMC 4999499. PMID 27555100.
- ^ May, Robert M. (18 August 1972). "Will a Large Complex System be Stable?". Nature. 238 (5364): 413–414. Bibcode:1972Natur.238..413M. doi:10.1038/238413a0. PMID 4559589. S2CID 4262204.
- ^ Bradbury, Jane (2000). "Sir Robert May: A new face at the Royal Society". The Lancet. 356 (9227): 406–736. doi:10.1016/S0140-6736(05)73556-X. PMID 10972381. S2CID 34829440.
- ^ "Advisory Council of the Campaign for Science and Engineering". Retrieved 11 February 2011.