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The Lord Rees of Ludlow
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Official portrait, 2019
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| 60th President of the Royal Society | |
| In office 2005–2010 |
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| Preceded by | The Lord May of Oxford |
| Succeeded by | Paul Nurse |
| 78th President of the Royal Astronomical Society | |
| In office 1992–1994 |
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| Preceded by | Ken Pounds |
| Succeeded by | Carole Jordan |
| 39th Master of Trinity College, Cambridge | |
| In office 2004–2012 |
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| Preceded by | Amartya Sen |
| Succeeded by | Sir Gregory Winter |
| Member of the House of Lords Lord Temporal |
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| Assumed office 6 September 2005 Life Peerage |
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| Personal details | |
| Born | 23 June 1942 York, England |
| Political party | None (crossbencher) |
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| Education | Shrewsbury School |
| Alma mater | Trinity College, Cambridge (BA, PhD) |
| Known for | Rees–Sciama effect 21-cm cosmology Coining particle chauvinism |
| Awards | Dannie Heineman Prize for Astrophysics (1984) Gold Medal of the Royal Astronomical Society (1987) 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) Dalton Medal (2012) HonFREng (2007) Nierenberg Prize (2015) Fritz Zwicky Prize (2020) Copley Medal (2023) Wolf Prize in Physics (2024) |
| Scientific career | |
| Fields | Astronomy Astrophysics |
| Institutions | University of Cambridge University of Sussex |
| Thesis | Physical processes in radio sources and inter-galactic medium (1967) |
| Doctoral advisor | Dennis Sciama |
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Martin John Rees, Baron Rees of Ludlow, 
In Spanish: Martin Rees para niños
- Particle chauvinism
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