Martin Rees
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]
The Lord Rees of Ludlow | |
|---|---|
 Martin Rees in 2005 | |
| 60th President of the Royal Society | |
| In office 2005–2010 | |
| Preceded by | Robert May, Baron May of Oxford |
| Succeeded by | Paul Nurse |
| Personal details | |
| Born | Martin John Rees 23 June 1942 York, England, United Kingdom |
| Spouse(s) | Caroline Humphrey (m. 1986) |
| Website | www |
| Education | Shrewsbury School |
| Alma mater | University of Cambridge (BA, MA, 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) HonFREng[1] (2007) Nierenberg Prize (2015) |
| 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 |
| Doctoral students | |
References
- "List of Fellows". raeng.org.uk. Archived from the original on 2016-06-08. Retrieved 2019-04-27.
- 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.
- "Martin Rees - the Mathematics Genealogy Project".
- https://www.ifa.hawaii.edu/~kaiser/biblio/cv.pdf
- 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.
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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. 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 at YouTube
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