Martin Rees
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- Born
- 1942-06-23
- Works
- 51
Top works
- Shape of Wonder
- Universe (B&N Exclusive Edition)
- What Are You Optimistic About?
- Cosmic Coincidences
- Era of Global Risk
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Martin John Rees, Baron Rees of Ludlow, OM, Kt, FRS (born 23 June 1942) is a British cosmologist and astrophysicist. He has been Astronomer Royal since 1995 and was Master of Trinity College, Cambridge from 2004 to 2012 and President of the Royal Society between 2005 and 2010. He was one of the first to propose that enormous black holes power quasars, and that superluminal astronomical observations can be explained as an optical illusion caused by an object moving partly in the direction of the
Recent publications · Crossref
5 total works indexed
- Fitting Linear Mixed-Effects Models Using
<b>lme4</b>
· 2015 · cited 72,756x
- Bias in meta-analysis detected by a simple, graphical test
· 1997 · cited 47,587x
- Highly accurate protein structure prediction with AlphaFold
· 2021 · cited 41,243x
- STATISTICAL METHODS FOR ASSESSING AGREEMENT BETWEEN TWO METHODS OF CLINICAL MEASUREMENT
· 1986 · cited 37,491x
- Gene Ontology: tool for the unification of biology
· 2000 · cited 36,227x
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Key facts
- Preceded by
- Arnold Wolfendale
- Succeeded by
- Michele Dougherty
- Born
- ( 1942-06-23 ) 23 June 1942 (age 83) , York , England
- Party
- None ( crossbencher )
- Spouse s
- Dame Caroline Humphrey , Lady Rees ( married</span>"}]]}'>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
- Fields
- Astronomy , Astrophysics
- Institutions
- University of Cambridge , University of Sussex
- Thesis
- Physical processes in radio sources and inter-galactic medium (1967)
Key dates
- Born
- 23 June 1942
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- human
- Given name
- John
- Gender
- male
- Citizenship
- United Kingdom
- Place of birth
- York
- Occupation
- cosmologist
- Educated at
- University of Cambridge
- Employer
- Trinity College
- Languages spoken
- English language
- Doctoral advisor
- Dennis W. Sciama
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Martin John Rees, Baron Rees of Ludlow, (born 23 June 1942) is a British cosmologist and astrophysicist. He was the fifteenth Astronomer Royal from 1995 to 2025, Master of Trinity College, Cambridge, from 2004 to 2012, and President of the Royal Society from 2005 to 2010. 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.
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