Martin Rees
British cosmologist and astrophysicist From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Martin John Rees, Baron Rees of Ludlow, OM, FRS, FREng, FMedSci, FRAS[1][9] (born 23 June 1942) is a British cosmologist and astrophysicist. He was Master of Trinity College, Cambridge from 2004 to 2012 and President of the Royal Society between 2005 and 2010.[10][11][12][13][14][15]
He was elected a member of the Academia Europaea in 1989.[16]
Rees is a member of the Board of the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton, and the Oxford Martin School. He co-founded the Centre for the Study of Existential Risk[17] and is on the Scientific Advisory Board for the Future of Life Institute.[18]
He has formerly been a Trustee of the British Museum, the Science Museum, the Gates Cambridge Trust and the Institute for Public Policy Research (IPPR).
His doctoral students have included Roger Blandford,[2][3] Craig Hogan,[4][5] Nick Kaiser[19] Priyamvada Natarajan,[6] and James E. Pringle.
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