Martin Rees

The Right Honourable
The Lord Rees of Ludlow
OM FRS HonFREng FMedSci FRAS HonFInstP
The Right Honourable The Lord Rees of Ludlow OM FRS HonFREng FMedSci FRAS HonFInstP
	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 (age 82); York, England
Political party	None (crossbencher)
Spouse(s)	Dame Caroline Humphrey, Lady Rees (m. 1986)
Website	www.ast.cam.ac.uk/~mjr/
Education	Shrewsbury School
Alma mater	Trinity College, Cambridge (BA, PhD)
Known for	Rees–Sciama effect; 21-cm cosmology; Coining particle chauvinism
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 (2007); Nierenberg Prize (2015); Fritz Zwicky Prize (2020); Copley Medal (2023); Wolf Prize in Physics (2024)
	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	Roger Blandford; Craig Hogan; Priyamvada Natarajan; James E. Pringle; Nick Kaiser;
	Martin Rees' voice Recorded June 2010 from the BBC Radio 4 programme the Reith Lectures

Martin John Rees, Baron Rees of Ludlow, (born 23 June 1942) is a British cosmologist and astrophysicist.^[10] He is the fifteenth Astronomer Royal, appointed in 1995,^[11]^[12] and was Master of Trinity College, Cambridge, from 2004 to 2012 and President of the Royal Society between 2005 and 2010.^[13]^[14] He has received various physics awards including the Wolf Prize in Physics in 2024 for fundamental contributions to high-energy astrophysics, galaxies and structure formation, and cosmology.

^ ^a ^b Cite error: The named reference whoswho was invoked but never defined (see the help page).
^ "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. Archived from the original on 27 April 2019. Retrieved 11 December 2017.
^ 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.
^ 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.
^ "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". New Statesman. accessed 31 August 2014

[whoswho-1] Cite error: The named reference whoswho was invoked but never defined (see the help page).

[List_of_Fellows-2] "List of Fellows". raeng.org.uk. Archived from the original on 8 June 2016. Retrieved 29 October 2014.

[mathgene-3] Martin Rees at the Mathematics Genealogy Project

[blandphd-4] 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 27 April 2019. Retrieved 11 December 2017.

[Hogan1-5] Hogan, Craig James (1980). Pre galactic history (PhD thesis). University of Cambridge. EThOS uk.bl.ethos.258089.

[Hogan2-6] Hogan, Craig James. "Curriculum vitae" (PDF). Retrieved 19 February 2018.

[Yale_CampusPress-7] "CURRICULUM VITAE: Priyamvada Natarajan". Yale CampusPress. Yale University. Retrieved 27 August 2020.

[8] "Martin Rees – the Mathematics Genealogy Project".

[9] "Curriculum Vitae – Nicholas Kaiser" (PDF). ifa.hawaii.edu. Archived from the original (PDF) on 17 February 2005. Retrieved 13 September 2019.

[Rees2022-10] 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.

[11] "Portraits of Astronomers Royal". rmg.co.uk. Royal Museums Greenwich. Archived from the original on 4 January 2015. Retrieved 18 February 2015.

[12] "Astronomer Royal". The British Monarchy. Royal Household. Archived from the original on 8 March 2016. Retrieved 23 June 2017.

[13] "Interviews with Charlie Rose, 2003 and 2008". charlierose.com. Archived from the original on 28 January 2010. accessed 31 August 2014

[14] Anon (2010). "New Statesman Interviews Martin Rees". New Statesman. accessed 31 August 2014

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The Right Honourable The Lord Rees of Ludlow OM FRS HonFREng FMedSci FRAS HonFInstP
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	(1942-06-23) 23 June 1942 (age 82) York, England
Political party	None (crossbencher)
Spouse(s)	Dame Caroline Humphrey, Lady Rees (m. 1986) ^[1]
Website	www.ast.cam.ac.uk/~mjr/

Education	Shrewsbury School^[1]
Alma mater	Trinity College, Cambridge (BA, PhD)
Known for	Rees–Sciama effect 21-cm cosmology Coining particle chauvinism
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) Wolf Prize in Physics (2024)
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	Roger Blandford^[3]^[4] Craig Hogan^[5]^[6] Priyamvada Natarajan^[7] James E. Pringle^[8] Nick Kaiser^[9]


Martin Rees' voice Recorded June 2010 from the BBC Radio 4 programme the Reith Lectures