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Robert May, Baron May of Oxford

1936 - 2020

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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. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Robert May, Baron May of Oxford is the 954th most popular biologist (down from 908th in 2019), the 279th most popular biography from Australia (down from 274th in 2019) and the 4th most popular Australian Biologist.

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Among BIOLOGISTS

Among biologists, Robert May, Baron May of Oxford ranks 954 out of 1,097. Before him are William Yarrell, William Beebe, Félix de Avelar Brotero, Elizabeth Gertrude Britton, Daniel Giraud Elliot, and Osamu Hayaishi. After him are William Healey Dall, Francis Willughby, Jinzō Matsumura, Gilbert White, Colin Munro MacLeod, and Robert Morison.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1936, Robert May, Baron May of Oxford ranks 448. Before him are Lyudmila Pinayeva, Aleksei Mamykin, Ádám Bodor, Paula Marosi, Sissy Schwarz, and Andrzej Zieliński. After him are Krystyna Chojnowska-Liskiewicz, Taisia Chenchik, Manfred Stolpe, Lane Smith, Gerald Guralnik, and Dmitri Anosov. Among people deceased in 2020, Robert May, Baron May of Oxford ranks 574. Before him are Volodymyr Troshkin, Kurt Stettler, Khalil Taha, Zhaksylyk Ushkempirov, Francisco Rodríguez Adrados, and Günter de Bruyn. After him are Clifford Robinson, Manuel Serifo Nhamadjo, Kevin Dobson, Walt Davis, Lyle Mays, and Barbara Windsor.

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In Australia

Among people born in Australia, Robert May, Baron May of Oxford ranks 279 out of 1,143. Before him are Sheila Fitzpatrick (1941), Frank Sedgman (1927), Casey Stoner (1985), Wayne Gardner (1959), Phoebe Tonkin (1989), and Pat Cash (1965). After him are Arthur O'Hara Wood (1890), Lenka (1978), Dannii Minogue (1971), Snub Pollard (1889), Chrissy Amphlett (1959), and Mathew Ryan (1992).

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Among BIOLOGISTS In Australia

Among biologists born in Australia, Robert May, Baron May of Oxford ranks 4. Before him are Macfarlane Burnet (1899), Elizabeth Blackburn (1948), and David Bruce (1855). After him are David A. Sinclair (1969), Frank Fenner (1914), and Suzanne Cory (1942).

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