Global InformationMartin Rees information
The Right Honourable The Lord Rees of Ludlow OM FRS HonFREng FMedSci FRAS HonFInstP | |
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 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 York, England |
| Political party | None (crossbencher) |
| Spouse(s) |
Dame Caroline Humphrey, Lady Rees
(m. 1986) |
| Website | www |
| Education | Shrewsbury School[1] |
| Alma mater | Trinity College, Cambridge (BA, PhD) |
| Known for | Cosmic microwave background radiation, quasars Astronomer Royal President of Royal Society |
| 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[2] (2007) Nierenberg Prize (2015) Fritz Zwicky Prize (2020) Copley Medal (2023) |
| Scientific career | |
| Fields | Astronomy Astrophysics |
| Institutions | University of Cambridge University of Sussex |
| Thesis | Physical processes in radio sources and inter-galactic medium (1967) |
| Doctoral advisor | Dennis Sciama[3] |
| Doctoral students |
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Martin John Rees, Baron Rees of Ludlow, OM, FRS, HonFREng, FMedSci, FRAS, HonFInstP[10][2] (born 23 June 1942) is a British cosmologist and astrophysicist.[11] He is the fifteenth Astronomer Royal, appointed in 1995,[12][13] and was Master of Trinity College, Cambridge, from 2004 to 2012 and President of the Royal Society between 2005 and 2010.[14][15][16][17][18][19]
- ^ a b Cite error: The named reference
whoswhowas invoked but never defined (see the help page). - ^ a b "List of Fellows". raeng.org.uk. Archived from the original on 8 June 2016. Retrieved 29 October 2014.
- ^ a b Martin Rees at the Mathematics Genealogy Project
- ^ Blandford, Roger David (1973). Electrodynamics and astrophysical applications of strong waves. lib.cam.ac.uk (PhD thesis). University of Cambridge. OCLC 500386171. EThOS uk.bl.ethos.450028.
- ^ Hogan, Craig James (1980). Pre galactic history (PhD thesis). University of Cambridge. EThOS uk.bl.ethos.258089.
- ^ Hogan, Craig James. "Curriculum vitae" (PDF). Retrieved 19 February 2018.
- ^ "CURRICULUM VITAE: Priyamvada Natarajan". Yale CampusPress. Yale University. Retrieved 27 August 2020.
- ^ "Martin Rees – the Mathematics Genealogy Project".
- ^ "Curriculum Vitae – Nicholas Kaiser" (PDF). ifa.hawaii.edu. Archived from the original (PDF) on 17 February 2005. Retrieved 13 September 2019.
- ^ Anon (2015). "The Lord Rees of Ludlow OM Kt HonFREng FRS". royalsociety. Royal Society. Archived from the original on 17 November 2015. 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". Archived from the original on 11 November 2016. Retrieved 9 March 2016.
- ^ Rees, Martin J. (18 August 2022). "Cosmology and High-Energy Astrophysics: A 50-Year Perspective on Personalities, Progress, and Prospects". Annual Review of Astronomy and Astrophysics. 60 (1): 1–30. Bibcode:2022ARA&A..60....1R. doi:10.1146/annurev-astro-111021-084639. ISSN 0066-4146. S2CID 248066390. Retrieved 19 August 2022.
- ^ "Portraits of Astronomers Royal". rmg.co.uk. Royal Museums Greenwich. Archived from the original on 4 January 2015. Retrieved 18 February 2015.
- ^ "Astronomer Royal". The British Monarchy. Royal Household. Archived from the original on 8 March 2016. Retrieved 23 June 2017.
- ^ Martin Rees publications indexed by the Scopus bibliographic database. (subscription required)
- ^ Martin J. Rees at Library of Congress, with 23 library catalogue records
- ^ "2005 talk: Is this our final century?". ted.com. accessed 31 August 2014
- ^ "Interviews with Charlie Rose, 2003 and 2008". charlierose.com. Archived from the original on 28 January 2010. accessed 31 August 2014
- ^ Anon (2010). "New Statesman Interviews Martin Rees". newstatesman.com. New Statesman. accessed 31 August 2014
- ^ Talk by Martin Rees, March 2017 on YouTube