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Introducer
Robert McCredie May, Lord May of Oxford, OM AC Kt FRS,
holds a Professorship jointly at Oxford University and Imperial
College, London and is a Fellow of Merton College, Oxford. He
was until recently President of The Royal Society (2000±05), and
before that Chief Scientific Adviser to the UK Government and
Head of the UK Office of Science and Technology (1995±2000).
He was awarded a Knighthood in 1996, and appointed -
panion of the Order of Australia in 1998, both for ``Services to
Science''. In 2001 he was one of the first 15 Life Peers created by
the House of Lords mission. In 2002, the
Queen appointed him to the Order of Merit (the fifth Australian
in its 100-year history). In 2007 he received The Royal Society's
Copley Medal, its oldest (1731) and most prestigious award,
given annually for ``outstanding achievements in research in any
branch of science''.
THE GUIDE TO
CLIMATE
CHANGE
An unbiased guide to
the key issue of our age
Introduction by Robert M. May
Encyclopædia Britannica, Inc.
First print edition published in the UK by Robinson,
an imprint of Constable & Robinson Ltd, 2008
Text © 2008 Encyclopædia Britannica, Inc.
Introduction © 2008 Robert M. May
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