Martin Rees
The Lord Rees of Ludlow Martin Rees in 2005 Born Martin John Rees (1942-06-23) 23 June 1942 (age 72) York, England, UK Fields Astronomy, astrophysics Institutions Trinity College, Cambridge University of Sussex Alma mater Trinity College, Cambridge Thesis Physical processes in radio sources and inter-galactic medium (1967) Doctoral advisor Dennis Sciama Doctoral students Roger Blandford, Craig Hogan, Priyamvada Natarajan Known for Cosmic microwave background radiation, quasars Astronomer Royal President of Royal Society Notable awards Dannie Heineman Prize for Astrophysics (1984) 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) HonFREng (2007) Spouse Caroline Humphrey Website www.ast.cam.ac.uk/~mjr Martin Rees' voice Sorry, your browser either has JavaScript disabled or does not have any supported player. You can download the clip or download a player to play the clip in your browser. Recorded June 2010 from the BBC Radio 4 programme the Reith Lectures Martin John Rees, Baron Rees of Ludlow, Kt., OM, FRS, HonFREng FMedSci (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.