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Martin Rees
British cosmologist and astrophysicist (1942-)
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- Instance of
- human
- Born
- 23 June 1942
- Place of birth
- York
- Sex or gender
- male
- Family name
- Rees
- Spouse
- Caroline Humphrey
- Field of work
- astrophysics, cosmology
- Occupation
- physicist, astronomer, politician, university teacher, astrophysicist, cosmologist
- Position held
- Astronomer Royal, President of the Royal Society, member of the House of Lords, Master of Trinity College, Cambridge
- Citizenship
- United Kingdom
- Awards
- Fellow of the Royal Society, UNESCO Niels Bohr Medal, Albert Einstein World Award of Science, Templeton Prize, Balzan Prize, Isaac Newton Medal, Gruber Prize in Cosmology, Petrie Prize Lecture, Oskar Klein Medal, Henry Norris Russell Lectureship, Gold Medal of the Royal Astronomical Society, Marcel Grossmann Award
- affiliated with
- University of Cambridge, Cambridge University Press
- affiliation string
- University of Cambridge
- depicted by
- Martin John Rees, Baron Rees of Ludlow
- doctoral advisor
- Dennis W. Sciama
- doctoral student
- James E. Pringle, Roger Blandford, Rachel Webster, Alexander Kashlinsky, Bernard J. T. Jones, E. Sterl Phinney, Zdenka Kuncic, Susan Stepney, Mitchell C. Begelman, Martin Haehnelt, Nicholas Kaiser
- educated at
- Trinity College, Shrewsbury School, University of Cambridge
- employer
- Gresham College, University of Sussex, University of Cambridge, University of Leicester, Trinity College
- languages spoken, written or signed
- English
- member of
- Royal Society, Norwegian Academy of Science and Letters, Accademia Nazionale dei Lincei, National Academy of Sciences, Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences, Pontifical Academy of Sciences, Russian Academy of Sciences, American Academy of Arts and Sciences, Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences, American Philosophical Society, International Society for Science and Religion, Academia Europaea
- name in native language
- Martin John Rees
- student
- Priyamvada Natarajan
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