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Martin John Rees, Baron Rees of Ludlow, OM, FRS, HonFREng, FMedSci, FRAS, HonFInstP (born 23 June 1942) is a British cosmologist and astrophysicist. He is the fifteenth Astronomer Royal, appointed in 1995, and was Master of Trinity College, Cambridge, from 2004 to 2012 and President of the Royal Society between 2005 and 2010.
Jun 19, 2024 · Martin Rees, English cosmologist and astrophysicist who was a main expositor of the big-bang theory of the origins of the universe. In Our Final Century (2003; also called Our Final Hour), he argued that humankind had only a 50 percent chance of surviving until the year 2100.
Martin Rees is a Fellow of Trinity College and Emeritus Professor of Cosmology and Astrophysics at the University of Cambridge. He holds the honorary title of Astronomer Royal and also Visiting Professor at Imperial College London and at Leicester University.
As a leading cosmologist and astrophysicist, Martin’s contributions have led to significant advances in domains ranging from galaxy formation to cosmic jets, black holes, gamma ray bursts as well as speculative aspects of cosmology - in particular, whether we live in a multiverse - and the prospect of detecting extraterrestrial life.
Prof. Martin Rees is a renowned astrophysicist and cosmologist, former Master of Trinity College and President of the Royal Society. He has made significant contributions to the fields of gamma ray bursts, black holes, cosmic structure formation and general cosmology.
Member of editorial boards for Reviews of Modern Physics, Oxford Monographs in Physics, Contemporary Physics, Astronomy and Astrophysics Reviews, Physics World, Bulletin of Atomic Scientists and other journals.
Martin Rees (Lord Rees of Ludlow, OM FRS) is an astrophysicist and cosmologist, and the UK's Astronomer Royal. He is based at the University of Cambridge where he has been Professor of Astronomy and Director of the Institute of Astronomy.
