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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 UKThe United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland is a state in Western Europe, usually known simply as the United Kingdom the UK Britain or less accurately as Great Britain . The UK was formed by a series of Acts of Union which united the formerly Government and head of the Office of Science and TechnologyThe Office of Science and Technology is a non-ministerial agency of the British government, headed by the Chief Scientific Adviser, currently Sir David King. The office is responsible for co-ordination of the government's science- and technology-related a. He started his 5-year term as the president of the Royal Society in 2000.

External links

• Profile of the 2001 Blue Planet Prize Recipient from the Asahi Glass Foundation
• Lord (Robert) May of Oxford Biography