Australian Born Robert May, Polymath, Former UK Chief Scientific Advisor and Royal Society Former President Talks to the ABC's Robyn Williams. (December 25, 2011)

For this week's Science Show, Robyn Williams interviewed Lord May of Oxford. After introducing him as: one of the most decorated men in Australian history, Lord May of Oxford [has been] been chief scientist in Britain, president of the Royal Society of London, he's won prizes equivalent to Nobels, and he's got the OM. The Order of Merit is one of those awards that is so special. If you knock back the others, you won't say no to the OM, trust me. I talked to him at the Royal Society about his very lucky life.

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