Martin Rees

Martin John Rees is a British physicist, astronomer, and university teacher born in York in 1942. He has served as a member of the Royal Society, the Norwegian Academy of Science and Letters, the Accademia Nazionale dei Lincei, and the National Academy of Sciences. Rees has held the position of Astronomer Royal and has been employed by Gresham College, the University of Sussex, the University of Cambridge, and the University of Leicester. He is affiliated with the University of Cambridge and Cambridge University Press.

Rees’s work focuses on astrophysics and cosmology. He received his doctoral degree from the University of Cambridge under the supervision of Dennis W. Sciama. His doctoral students include James E. Pringle, Roger Blandford, Alexander Kashlinsky, and Nicholas Kaiser, while Priyamvada Natarajan is listed as a student. He has received the Fellow of the Royal Society, the UNESCO Niels Bohr Medal, the Albert Einstein World Award of Science, and the Templeton Prize.

Among his published works are *Shape of Wonder*, *Universe (B&N Exclusive Edition)*, *What Are You Optimistic About?*, *Cosmic Coincidences*, and *Era of Global Risk*. Rees is a member of the Royal Society collection and the American Academy Arts Sciences collection.