Martin Rees
1942
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photo credits: Wikimedia Commons
country of citizenship: United Kingdom
languages spoken, written or signed: English
educated at: Trinity College, Shrewsbury School, University of Cambridge
occupation: physicist, astronomer, politician, university teacher, astrophysicist, cosmologist, international forum participant
award received: 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, Karl Schwarzschild Medal, Dannie Heineman Prize for Astrophysics, Bruce Medal, Nierenberg Prize, Bruno Rossi Prize, Bakerian Lecture, Michael Faraday Prize, Lilienfeld Prize, ICTP Dirac Medal, Fellow of the Academy of Medical Sciences, Crafoord Prize in Astronomy, Bower Award and Prize for Achievement in Science, Guthrie Medal and Prize, honorary doctor of Harvard University, Order of Merit, honorary doctor of the Yale University, Knight Bachelor, honorary Fellow of the Learned Society of Wales, Science Writing Award, Dalton Medal, Karl G. Jansky Lectureship, honorary doctor of ETH Zürich, Royal Society Bakerian Medal
position held: Astronomer Royal, President of the Royal Society, member of the House of Lords
official website: www.ast.cam.ac.uk/~mjr
Martin John Rees, Baron Rees of Ludlow, (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. Source: Wikipedia (en)
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