Blank greetings card with envelope featuring:

Robert McCredie May, Baron May of Oxford NPG x88768

© Norman McBeath / National Portrait Gallery, London

by Norman McBeath

Robert May held a Professorship in the Department of Zoology jointly at Oxford University and Imperial College, London. Australian-born, he was Chief Scientific Adviser to the British Government, Head of the UK Office of Science and Technology (1995-2000) and President of the Royal Society (2000-2005). His work as a research scientist dealt with factors influencing the abundance of plant and animal species and with the rates, causes and consequences of extinction. He was knighted in 1996 and made a peer in 2001.

Card size: 125mm x 175mm

Images are printed in their original proportions, within a white border.