Martin Rees

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51

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Music · MusicBrainz

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Person

Gender

Male

Origin

Middlesbrough

Active from

1942

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Martin John Rees, Baron Rees of Ludlow, OM, Kt, FRS (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. He was one of the first to propose that enormous black holes power quasars, and that superluminal astronomical observations can be explained as an optical illusion caused by an object moving partly in the direction of the

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58,230

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Recent publications · Crossref

5 total works indexed

1. Fitting Linear Mixed-Effects Models Using <b>lme4</b>

   · 2015 · cited 73,357x

2. Bias in meta-analysis detected by a simple, graphical test

   · 1997 · cited 47,787x

3. Highly accurate protein structure prediction with AlphaFold

   · 2021 · cited 41,691x

4. STATISTICAL METHODS FOR ASSESSING AGREEMENT BETWEEN TWO METHODS OF CLINICAL MEASUREMENT

   · 1986 · cited 37,564x

5. Gene Ontology: tool for the unification of biology

   · 2000 · cited 36,351x

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Quotes

• “Absence of evidence is not evidence of absence.”
• “We’re all depressingly ‘lay’ outside our specialisms — my own knowledge, of recent biological advances, such as it is, comes largely from ‘popular’ books and journalism.”
• “No one can say which approach is the right one — so no one can say how close we are to a solution.”
• “When I discover I'm wrong, I change my mind. What do you do?”
• “... I'd want to emphasize that most progress in cosmology and astrophysics has been due to advanced instruments and technology — less than 5 per cent to armchair theory. And I'd expect that balance to continue.”

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Key facts

Preceded by

Arnold Wolfendale

Succeeded by

Michele Dougherty

Born

( 1942-06-23 ) 23 June 1942 (age 83) , York , England

Party

None ( crossbencher )

Spouse s

Dame Caroline Humphrey , Lady Rees ​ ​ ( married</span>"}]]}'>m. 1986 ) ​

Website

www .ast .cam .ac .uk /~mjr /

Education

Shrewsbury School

Alma mater

Trinity College, Cambridge ( BA , PhD)

Known for

Rees–Sciama effect , 21-cm cosmology , Coining particle chauvinism

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

Doctoral students

Roger Blandford Craig Hogan Priyamvada Natarajan James E. Pringle Nick Kaiser

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Wikidata facts

Official website

www.ast.cam.ac.uk/~mjr

Image

Official portrait of Lord Rees of Ludlow crop 2.jpg

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