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Martin Rees

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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]

The Right Honourable

The Lord Rees of Ludlow

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Official portrait, 2019
60th President of the Royal Society
In office
2005–2010
Preceded byThe Lord May of Oxford
Succeeded byPaul Nurse
78th President of the Royal Astronomical Society
In office
1992–1994
Preceded byKen Pounds
Succeeded byCarole Jordan
39th Master of Trinity College, Cambridge
In office
2004–2012
Preceded byAmartya Sen
Succeeded bySir Gregory Winter
Member of the House of Lords
Lord Temporal
Assumed office
6 September 2005
Life Peerage
Personal details
Born23 June 1942 (aged 83)
York, England
Political partyNone (crossbencher)
Spouse(s)
Dame Caroline Humphrey, Lady Rees
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(m. 1986)​
Websitewww.ast.cam.ac.uk/~mjr/
EducationShrewsbury School
Alma materTrinity College, Cambridge (BA, PhD)
Known forRees–Sciama effect
21-cm cosmology
Coining particle chauvinism
AwardsDannie 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[1] (2007)
Nierenberg Prize (2015)
Fritz Zwicky Prize (2020)
Copley Medal (2023)
Wolf Prize in Physics (2024)
Scientific career
FieldsAstronomy
Astrophysics
InstitutionsUniversity of Cambridge
University of Sussex
ThesisPhysical processes in radio sources and inter-galactic medium (1967)
Doctoral students
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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. ↑ 1.0 1.1 Lua error in Module:Citation/CS1/Utilities at line 38: bad argument #1 to 'ipairs' (table expected, got nil).
  2. ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 Martin Rees at the Mathematics Genealogy Project
  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. 
  4. ↑ 4.0 4.1 Hogan, Craig James (1980). Pre galactic history. University of Cambridge. EThOS uk.bl.ethos.258089. 
  5. ↑ 5.0 5.1 Lua error in Module:Citation/CS1/Utilities at line 38: bad argument #1 to 'ipairs' (table expected, got nil).
  6. ↑ 6.0 6.1 Lua error in Module:Citation/CS1/Utilities at line 38: bad argument #1 to 'ipairs' (table expected, got nil).
  7. ↑ Lua error in Module:Citation/CS1/Utilities at line 38: bad argument #1 to 'ipairs' (table expected, got nil).
  8. ↑ Lua error in Module:Citation/CS1/Utilities at line 38: bad argument #1 to 'ipairs' (table expected, got nil).
  9. ↑ Lua error in Module:Citation/CS1/Utilities at line 38: bad argument #1 to 'ipairs' (table expected, got nil). 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.” --Lua error in Module:Citation/CS1/Utilities at line 38: bad argument #1 to 'ipairs' (table expected, got nil).
  10. ↑ Template:Scopus id
  11. ↑ Martin J. Rees at Library of Congress Authorities, with 23 catalogue records
  12. ↑ Lua error in Module:Citation/CS1/Utilities at line 38: bad argument #1 to 'ipairs' (table expected, got nil). accessed 31 August 2014
  13. ↑ Lua error in Module:Citation/CS1/Utilities at line 38: bad argument #1 to 'ipairs' (table expected, got nil). accessed 31 August 2014
  14. ↑ Lua error in Module:Citation/CS1/Utilities at line 38: bad argument #1 to 'ipairs' (table expected, got nil). accessed 31 August 2014
  15. ↑ Talk by Martin Rees, March 2017 at YouTube
  16. ↑ Lua error in Module:Citation/CS1/Utilities at line 38: bad argument #1 to 'ipairs' (table expected, got nil).
  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. ↑ Lua error in Module:Citation/CS1/Utilities at line 38: bad argument #1 to 'ipairs' (table expected, got nil).
  19. ↑ Lua error in Module:Citation/CS1/Utilities at line 38: bad argument #1 to 'ipairs' (table expected, got nil).
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