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|aMay, Robert M.|q(Robert McCredie),|d1936-|4ive |
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|aRobert McCredie May interviewed by Peter Pockley|h[sound recording]. |
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|c2003. |
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|a3 minidiscs. |
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|aAccess open for research, personal copies and public use. |
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|aRecorded on Mar. 24, 2003; Mar. 26, 2003 at the Royal Society, London, U.K. |
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|aRobert McCredie May, Lord May of Oxford, OM AC Kt, born in Randwick, N.S.W. speaks about his family background, his schooling & early academic influences; his decision to choose a life in scientific research; his Bachelor of Science and a PhD in Theoretical Physics from the University of Sydney; spending 2 years as Gordon MacKay Lecturer in Applied Mathematics at Harvard University, Cambridge, Mass.; returning to Sydney University as Senior Lecturer in Theoretical Physics (1960) at age 24, later Reader and at age 33, the holder of Sydney University's first Personal Chair; meeting prominent researchers of British ecological research, then their American counterparts; how he eventually switched disciplines from physics to ecology; his move to Princeton University (Princeton, N. J.) as Class of 1877 (explaining the concept & its role) Prof. of Zoology in 1973; his pioneering ecological research in theoretical analysis of the dynamics of populations, communities and ecosystems while working at Princeton. |
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|aLord May speaks about how from 1977 until he moved to Oxford, U.K. as a Royal Society Research Professor (1988), he was Chairman of the University Research Board at Princeton University, having broad administrative responsibility for all externally and internally funded research; how he was approached to become Chief Scientific Adviser to the U.K. Government (1995-Sept. 2000), and Head of its Office of Science and Technology; the biggest challenges he faced in his role as Chief Scientific Adviser; the role of & administrative structure of the Royal Society and how he himself was elected to the Presidency (2001-2005); the honours he received during his scientific career & the differences they have made to his life; the composition of the House of Lords, the life peerage system and his own involvement in the business of the Lords; the House of Lords in relation to questions of public trust; his role in the production of Tom Stoppard's play Acadia. |
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|dLord Robert May;|elocated at;|aNational Library of Australia Pictures collection PIC/8478/1 LOC nla.pic-vn1046808 Online access. |
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|dLord Robert May;|elocated at;|aNational Library of Australia Pictures collection PIC/8478/2 LOC nla.pic-vn3410643 Online access. |
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|aLord May, is the current President of The Royal Society of London (2000-2005). He holds a Professorship jointly in the Dept. of Zoology, Oxford University and Imperial College, London, He is a Fellow of Merton College, Oxford. He was elected to the Royal Society in 1979, Australian Academy of Sciences as an Overseas Fellow in 1991, Academia Europaea in 1994, and (as a Foreign member) the US National Academy of Sciences in 1992. |
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|aTimed summary (8 p.) and transcript. |
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|aRoyal Society (Great Britain) |
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|aGreat Britain.|bOffice of Science and Technology. |
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|aScience and state|zGreat Britain. |
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|aTechnology and state|zGreat Britain. |
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|aPhysics|xResearch. |
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|aPopulation biology. |
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|aEcology|xMathematical models. |
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|aPockley, Peter,|d1935-|4ivr |