Martin Rees

The Right Honourable

The Lord Rees of Ludlow

OM FRS FREng FMedSci FRAS
Martin Rees in 2005
60th President of the Royal Society
In office
2005–2010
Preceded byRobert May, Baron May of Oxford
Succeeded byPaul Nurse
Personal details
Born
Martin John Rees

(1942-06-23) 23 June 1942 (age 82)
York, England, United Kingdom
Spouse(s)
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(m. 1986)​
Websitewww.ast.cam.ac.uk/~mjr/
EducationShrewsbury School
Alma materUniversity of Cambridge (BA, MA, PhD)
Known forCosmic microwave background radiation quasars
Astronomer Royal
President of Royal Society
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)
HonFREng[1] (2007)
Nierenberg Prize (2015)
Scientific career
FieldsAstronomy
Astrophysics
InstitutionsUniversity of Cambridge
University of Sussex
ThesisPhysical processes in radio sources and inter-galactic medium (1967)
Doctoral advisorDennis Sciama
Doctoral students
Martin Rees' voice
Recorded June 2010 from the BBC Radio 4 programme the Reith Lectures

Martin John Rees, Baron Rees of Ludlow, OM, FRS, FREng, FMedSci, FRAS[1][7] (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.[8][9][10][11][12][13]

He was elected a member of the Academia Europaea in 1989.[14]

References

  1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 "List of Fellows". raeng.org.uk. Archived from the original on 2016-06-08. Retrieved 2019-04-27.
  2. ↑ 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. Archived from the original on 2019-04-27. Retrieved 2019-04-27.
  3. ↑ Hogan, Craig James (1980). Pre galactic history (PhD thesis). University of Cambridge. EThOS uk.bl.ethos.258089.
  4. ↑ Hogan, Craig James. "Curriculum vitae" (PDF). Retrieved 19 February 2018.
  5. ↑ "Martin Rees - the Mathematics Genealogy Project".
  6. ↑ https://www.ifa.hawaii.edu/~kaiser/biblio/cv.pdf
  7. ↑ 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.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: bot: original URL status unknown (link)
  8. ↑ Martin Rees publications indexed by the Scopus bibliographic database. (subscription required)
  9. ↑ Martin J. Rees at Library of Congress Authorities, with 23 catalogue records
  10. ↑ "2005 talk: Is this our final century?". ted.com. accessed 31 August 2014
  11. ↑ "Interviews with Charlie Rose, 2003 and 2008". charlierose.com. Archived from the original on 28 January 2010. accessed 31 August 2014
  12. ↑ Anon (2010). "New Statesman Interviews Martin Rees". newstatesman.com. New Statesman. accessed 31 August 2014
  13. ↑ Talk by Martin Rees, March 2017 on YouTube
  14. ↑ "Martin Rees". Academia Europaea. Archived from the original on 28 March 2019.