Complex sentence: May was born in Sydney and educated at Sydney Boys High School and then the University of Sydney, having studied chemical engineering and theoretical physics (B.Sc.1956) and receiving a Ph.D. in theoretical physics in 1959.
Split into simpler sentences: May was born in Sydney and educated at Sydney Boys High School. He then attended the University of Sydney, where he studied chemical engineering and theoretical physics (B.Sc.1956) and received a Ph.D. in theoretical physics in 1959.