Martin John Rees
Martin John Rees, Baron Rees of Ludlow, is a British cosmologist and astrophysicist. He was the fifteenth Astronomer Royal from 1995 to 2025, Master of Trinity College, Cambridge, from 2004 to 2012, and President of the Royal Society from 2005 to 2010. He has received various physics awards including the Wolf Prize in Physics in 2024 for fundamental contributions to high-energy astrophysics, galaxies and structure formation, and cosmology.
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Martin John Rees, Baron Rees of Ludlow, is a British cosmologist and astrophysicist. He was the fifteenth Astronomer Royal from 1995 to 2025, Master of Trinity College, Cambridge, from 2004 to 2012, and President of the Royal Society from 2005 to 2010. He has received various physics awards including the Wolf Prize in Physics in 2024 for fundamental contributions to high-energy astrophysics, galaxies and structure formation, and cosmology.
Top Publications
- The Swift Gamma‐Ray Burst Mission (2004) - 4,191 citations
- Core condensation in heavy halos: a two-stage theory for galaxy formation and clustering (1978) - 3,934 citations
- Massive black hole binaries in active galactic nuclei (1980) - 1,951 citations
- Tidal disruption of stars by black holes of 106–108 solar masses in nearby galaxies (1988) - 1,714 citations
- Theory of extragalactic radio sources (1984) - 1,707 citations
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- Full name
- Martin John Rees
- ORCID
- 0009-0007-4070-4204
- OpenAlex ID
- https://openalex.org/A5110092412
Research interests
- Galaxies: Formation, Evolution, Phenomena, Astrophysical Phenomena and Observations, Astrophysics and Cosmic Phenomena, Cosmology and Gravitation Theories, Stellar, planetary, and galactic studies
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- The Swift Gamma‐Ray Burst Mission ↗2004 · The Astrophysical Journal4,191OpenAlex citations
- Core condensation in heavy halos: a two-stage theory for galaxy formation and clustering ↗1978 · Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society3,934OpenAlex citations
- 1,951OpenAlex citations
- 1,714OpenAlex citations
- Theory of extragalactic radio sources ↗1984 · Reviews of Modern Physics1,707OpenAlex citations
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- The Swift Gamma‐Ray Burst Mission ↗2004 · The Astrophysical Journal
- Core condensation in heavy halos: a two-stage theory for galaxy formation and clustering ↗1978 · Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society
- Theory of extragalactic radio sources ↗1984 · Reviews of Modern Physics
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