Professor Lord Robert May of Oxford (1936-2020)

It is a shame that Bob never chose to write his memoirs. His remarkable intellectual journey from theoretical physics to science of ecosystems and thence to the mechanics of banking would have made for a very good read indeed, but what I would relish even more are the sentences themselves that he would have spoken with furious grace into the Dictaphone for his devoted assistants (during his Oxford years, Christine Bond, and later, Lynne Bradley)...