American parapsychology researcher who led the government-funded remote viewing program at Stanford Research Institute (later moved to Science Applications International) — a physicist by training who became one of the most systematic researchers of anomalous cognition (ESP, precognition).
Provided the most rigorous scientific documentation of anomalous cognition — the remote viewing research at SRI produced results that could not be explained by chance, and May's database of experiments is the largest systematic collection of parapsychological data — providing the empirical foundation for serious discussion.
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