Martin Rees

The Right Honourable

The Lord Rees of Ludlow
The Right Honourable; The Lord Rees of Ludlow;
	Official portrait, 2019
60th President of the Royal Society
	In office; 2005–2010
Preceded by	The Lord May of Oxford
Succeeded by	Paul Nurse
78th President of the Royal Astronomical Society
	In office; 1992–1994
Preceded by	Ken Pounds
Succeeded by	Carole Jordan
39th Master of Trinity College, Cambridge
	In office; 2004–2012
Preceded by	Amartya Sen
Succeeded by	Sir Gregory Winter
Member of the House of Lords; Lord Temporal
	Incumbent
	Assumed office ; 6 September 2005; Life Peerage
Personal details
Born	23 June 1942 (aged 83); York, England
Political party	None (crossbencher)
Spouse(s)	Dame Caroline Humphrey, Lady Rees (m. 1986)
Website	www.ast.cam.ac.uk/~mjr/
Education	Shrewsbury School
Alma mater	Trinity College, Cambridge (BA, PhD)
Known for	Rees–Sciama effect; 21-cm cosmology; Coining particle chauvinism
Awards	Dannie Heineman Prize for Astrophysics (1984); Gold Medal of the Royal Astronomical Society (1987); Balzan Prize (1989); Bower Award (1998); Gruber Prize in Cosmology (2001); Albert Einstein World Award of Science (2003); Michael Faraday Prize (2004); Crafoord Prize (2005); Order of Merit (2007); Templeton Prize (2011); Isaac Newton Medal (2012); Dalton Medal (2012); HonFREng (2007); Nierenberg Prize (2015); Fritz Zwicky Prize (2020); Copley Medal (2023); Wolf Prize in Physics (2024)
	Scientific career
Fields	Astronomy; Astrophysics
Institutions	University of Cambridge; University of Sussex
Thesis	Physical processes in radio sources and inter-galactic medium (1967)
Doctoral students	Roger Blandford; Craig Hogan; Priyamvada Natarajan; James E. Pringle; Nick Kaiser;
	Martin Rees' voice
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Martin John Rees, Baron Rees of Ludlow, ^[1]^[9] (born 23 June 1942) is a British cosmologist and astrophysicist. He was Master of Trinity College, Cambridge from 2004 to 2012 and President of the Royal Society between 2005 and 2010.^[10]^[11]^[12]^[13]^[14]^[15]

He was elected a member of the Academia Europaea in 1989.^[16]

Rees is a member of the Board of the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton, and the Oxford Martin School. He co-founded the Centre for the Study of Existential Risk^[17] and is on the Scientific Advisory Board for the Future of Life Institute.^[18]

He has formerly been a Trustee of the British Museum, the Science Museum, the Gates Cambridge Trust and the Institute for Public Policy Research (IPPR).

His doctoral students have included Roger Blandford,^[2]^[3] Craig Hogan,^[4]^[5] Nick Kaiser^[19] Priyamvada Natarajan,^[6] and James E. Pringle.

References

↑ ^1.0 ^1.1 List of Fellows. raeng.org.uk. Retrieved 2019-04-27.
↑ ^2.0 ^2.1 ^2.2 Martin Rees at the Mathematics Genealogy Project
↑ ^3.0 ^3.1 Blandford, Roger David (1973). Electrodynamics and astrophysical applications of strong waves. University of Cambridge. OCLC 500386171 . EThOS uk.bl.ethos.450028. http://ulmss-newton.lib.cam.ac.uk/vwebv/holdingsInfo?bibId=6228. Retrieved 11 December 2017.
↑ ^4.0 ^4.1 Hogan, Craig James (1980). Pre galactic history. University of Cambridge. EThOS uk.bl.ethos.258089.
↑ ^5.0 ^5.1 Hogan, Craig James. Curriculum vitae. Retrieved 19 February 2018.
↑ ^6.0 ^6.1 CURRICULUM VITAE: Priyamvada Natarajan. Yale CampusPressYale University. Retrieved 27 August 2020.
↑ Martin Rees – the Mathematics Genealogy Project.
↑ Curriculum Vitae – Nicholas Kaiser. ifa.hawaii.edu. Retrieved 13 September 2019.
↑ Anon. The Lord Rees of Ludlow OM Kt HonFREng FRS. royalsociety (2015)Royal Society. One or more of the preceding sentences incorporates text from the royalsociety.org website where:
“All text published under the heading 'Biography' on Fellow profile pages is available under Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License.” --Royal Society Terms, conditions and policies. Retrieved 9 March 2016.
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↑ Martin J. Rees at Library of Congress Authorities, with 23 catalogue records
↑ 2005 talk: Is this our final century?. ted.com. accessed 31 August 2014
↑ Interviews with Charlie Rose, 2003 and 2008. charlierose.com. accessed 31 August 2014
↑ Anon. New Statesman Interviews Martin Rees. newstatesman.com (2010)New Statesman. accessed 31 August 2014
↑ Talk by Martin Rees, March 2017 at YouTube
↑ Martin ReesAcademia Europaea.
↑ Lewsey, Fred (25 November 2012). "Humanity's last invention and our uncertain future". Research News (University of Cambridge). http://www.cam.ac.uk/research/news/humanitys-last-invention-and-our-uncertain-future. Retrieved 28 January 2013.
↑ Who We Are (2014)Future of Life Institute. Retrieved 7 May 2014.
↑ Nick Kaiser | Higgs Centre for Theoretical Physics (in en). higgs.ph.ed.ac.uk (7 August 2014). Retrieved 15 March 2018.

[List_of_Fellows-1] 1.0 ^1.1 List of Fellows. raeng.org.uk. Retrieved 2019-04-27.

[mathgene-2] 2.0 ^2.1 ^2.2 Martin Rees at the Mathematics Genealogy Project

[blandphd-3] 3.0 ^3.1 Blandford, Roger David (1973). Electrodynamics and astrophysical applications of strong waves. University of Cambridge. OCLC 500386171 . EThOS uk.bl.ethos.450028. http://ulmss-newton.lib.cam.ac.uk/vwebv/holdingsInfo?bibId=6228. Retrieved 11 December 2017.

[Hogan1-4] 4.0 ^4.1 Hogan, Craig James (1980). Pre galactic history. University of Cambridge. EThOS uk.bl.ethos.258089.

[Hogan2-5] 5.0 ^5.1 Hogan, Craig James. Curriculum vitae. Retrieved 19 February 2018.

[Yale_CampusPress-6] 6.0 ^6.1 CURRICULUM VITAE: Priyamvada Natarajan. Yale CampusPressYale University. Retrieved 27 August 2020.

[7] Martin Rees – the Mathematics Genealogy Project.

[8] Curriculum Vitae – Nicholas Kaiser. ifa.hawaii.edu. Retrieved 13 September 2019.

[frs-9] Anon. The Lord Rees of Ludlow OM Kt HonFREng FRS. royalsociety (2015)Royal Society. One or more of the preceding sentences incorporates text from the royalsociety.org website where:
“All text published under the heading 'Biography' on Fellow profile pages is available under Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License.” --Royal Society Terms, conditions and policies. Retrieved 9 March 2016.

[scopus-10] Template:Scopus id

[lcauth-11] Martin J. Rees at Library of Congress Authorities, with 23 catalogue records

[12] 2005 talk: Is this our final century?. ted.com. accessed 31 August 2014

[13] Interviews with Charlie Rose, 2003 and 2008. charlierose.com. accessed 31 August 2014

[14] Anon. New Statesman Interviews Martin Rees. newstatesman.com (2010)New Statesman. accessed 31 August 2014

[15] Talk by Martin Rees, March 2017 at YouTube

[16] Martin ReesAcademia Europaea.

[17] Lewsey, Fred (25 November 2012). "Humanity's last invention and our uncertain future". Research News (University of Cambridge). http://www.cam.ac.uk/research/news/humanitys-last-invention-and-our-uncertain-future. Retrieved 28 January 2013.

[18] Who We Are (2014)Future of Life Institute. Retrieved 7 May 2014.

[19] Nick Kaiser | Higgs Centre for Theoretical Physics (in en). higgs.ph.ed.ac.uk (7 August 2014). Retrieved 15 March 2018.

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