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Sir Martin Rees

The Right Honourable
The Lord Rees of Ludlow
OM FRS FREng FMedSci FRAS
Martin Rees-6Nov2005.jpg
Martin Rees in 2005
President of the Royal Society
In office
2005–2010
Preceded by The Lord May of Oxford
Succeeded by Sir Paul Nurse
Personal details
Born Martin John Rees
(1942-06-23) 23 June 1942 (age 75)
York, England, United Kingdom
Spouse(s) Dame Caroline Humphrey
Website www.ast.cam.ac.uk/~mjr/
Scientific career
Fields Astronomy, astrophysics
Institutions Trinity College, Cambridge
University of Sussex
Alma mater Trinity College, Cambridge
Thesis Physical processes in radio sources and inter-galactic medium (1967)
Doctoral advisor Dennis Sciama
Doctoral students Roger Blandford
Craig Hogan
Priyamvada Natarajan
Known for Cosmic microwave background radiation quasars
Astronomer Royal
President of Royal Society
Notable 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)
HonFREng(2007)
Nierenberg Prize (2015)

Martin John Rees, Baron Rees of Ludlow, OM, FRS, FREng, FMedSci, FRAS (born 23 June 1942) is a British cosmologist and astrophysicist. He has been Astronomer Royal since 1995 and was Master of Trinity College, Cambridge from 2004 to 2012 and President of the Royal Society between 2005 and 2010. Rees currently sits on the Board of Sponsors for the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists.

Rees was born on 23 June 1942 in York, England. After a peripatetic life during the war his parents, both teachers, settled with Rees, an only child, in a rural part of Shropshire near the border with Wales. There, his parents founded Bedstone College, a boarding school based on progressive educational concepts that continues to thrive to this day. He was educated at Bedstone College, then from the age of 13 at Shrewsbury School, Shropshire. He studied for the Mathematics tripos at Trinity College, Cambridge, graduating with first class. He then undertook post-graduate research at Cambridge and completed a PhD degree under Dennis Sciama in 1967. Rees's post-graduate work in astrophysics in the mid-1960s coincided with an explosion of new discoveries, with breakthroughs ranging from confirmation of the big bang, the discovery of neutron stars and black holes, and a host of other revelations. Martin Rees is an atheist but has criticised militant atheists for being too hostile to religion.


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