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	Martin Rees - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The Right Honourable Martin John Rees, Baron Rees of Ludlow, FRS (born 23 June 1942) is a professor of astronomy.
		Rees was educated at Shrewsbury School and Trinity College, Cambridge, and studied in the United States before taking a professorship at Sussex University.
		Martin Rees nomination for new President of the Royal Society (29 March 2005)
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Martin_Rees (579 words)

	Guardian Unlimited \| Life \| The end of the world as we know it (maybe)
		Martin Rees is rather chirpy for a horseman of the apocalypse.
		Rees started off as a research fellow at Cambridge, did a couple of stints in America, and by 1972 he had been appointed professor of astronomy at Sussex University.
		Rees says that astronomy, the science of the very large, and atomic physics, the science of the very small, are easy compared to the science of the everyday scale - the human scale.
	www.guardian.co.uk /life/interview/story/0,12982,941906,00.html (2892 words)

	Chandra :: Chronicles :: An Interview with Sir Martin Rees :: June 25, 2001
		Rees: Two areas that have been especially interesting are the results on clusters of galaxies and those on supernova remnants.
		Rees: I am unconvinced that the source in M82 is an intermediate mass fl hole.
		Rees: Yes, the data on the distant clusters will be very important for understanding which model for the evolution of the universe is correct.
	chandra.harvard.edu /chronicle/0201/rees.html (1027 words)

	Edge: MARTIN REES
		Martin Rees is one of the few cosmologists exploring both venues, giving him a unique perspective from which to develop scientific ideas, and to synthesize known ideas for a broader audience.
		SIR MARTIN REES is Royal Society Professor at Cambridge University, Fellow of King's College, the UK's Astronomer Royal, and a Fellow of the Royal Society.
		SIR MARTIN REES is Royal Society Professor at Kings College, Cambridge and the UK Astronomer Royal.
	www.edge.org /3rd_culture/bios/rees.html (332 words)

	Martin Rees: Before the Beginning (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		In this book Martin Rees presents an authoritative account of what is known and what is thought to be the case or might just conceivably be the case.
		Rees was persuaded by his editor to include a certain amount of speculation and this was sensible, otherwise the book might have been somewhat dry.
		Rees is prepared to toy with the notion that life might exist in quite different forms, as envisaged by Fred Hoyle in his early novel 'The Black Cloud'.
	www.accampbell.uklinux.net /bookreviews/r/rees-1.html (544 words)

	Sir Martin Rees (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Sir Martin Rees, Astronomer Royal and Royal Society Research Professor at Cambridge University, is renowned for his extraordinary intuition in unraveling the complexities of the universe.
		Sir Martin Rees is one of the most eminent theoretical astrophysicists of our time.
		Martin Rees was born in 1942, and grew up in Shropshire, a rural part of England.
	www.petergruberfoundation.org /rees.htm (1009 words)

	Martin S. Rees
		Rees was a member of the Methodist Episcopal Church for over 50 years, and was highly respected for his strict morality and the firmness of his faith.
		Rees returned to his native county and township and took possession of the homestead which is now his property.
		Rees was born in the township of Spring Grove, 3 August 1844, and is the daughter of John and Margaret (Reynolds) Low.
	www.usgennet.org /usa/il/county/warren/martin_rees.html (2212 words)

	Our Final Hour by Martin Rees
		Sir Martin Rees is Royal Society Professor at Cambridge University and England's Astronomer Royal.
		Rees is concerned that small disaffected groups, even individuals, have the potential to inflict great harm.
		Rees hopes to loose a $1000 bet: By 2020 an instance of bioerror or bioterror will have killed a million people.
	www.maxvalue.com /tip107.htm (689 words)

	Martin Rees Bibliography
		Rees, Martin J., “Accretion and the Quasar Phenomenon” Physica Scripta 17, 193 (1978).
		Rees, Martin J., “Clusters Of Galaxies: An Introductory Survey,” in Clusters and Superclusters of Galaxies, ed.
		Rees, Martin J., “Introductory Lecture,” Proceedings of NATO ASI on Cosmology held at the Isaac Newton Institute, ed R. Crittenden.
	www.phys-astro.sonoma.edu /brucemedalists/rees/ReesRefs.html (719 words)

	Martin Rees: Our Cosmic Habitat (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		This is where Rees discusses the multiverse idea and confronts the criticism that it is too speculative to count as science.
		Rees suggests that there are certain physical constants, such as lambda (the energy latent in empty space that causes a repulsion), whose values could be used to test whether our universe is typical of the habitable subset that could harbour complex life.
		Rees is a clear and elegant writer who does an excellent job of presenting the quite extraordinary ideas of modern cosmology for the non-mathematical reader.
	www.accampbell.uklinux.net /bookreviews/r/rees-3.html (490 words)

	Scientific American: Doom and Gloom by 2100 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		As one himself, Rees was among the first to posit that giant fl holes power quasars, and his work on quasar distribution helped to refute the theory that the cosmos exists in a steady state.
		Rees directed Cambridge's Institute of Astronomy until 1992; he then served for a decade as a Royal Society Research Professor before assuming the mastership of Cambridge's Trinity College.
		Subir Sarkar, a University of Oxford cosmologist who considers Rees a true "guru" for his wide-ranging perspective and contributions to astrophysics and cosmology, contends nonetheless that Rees was "irresponsible in making a big deal of the negligible probability" connected with the particle collisions at RHIC.
	www.sciam.com /print_version.cfm?articleID=0009D5CA-C218-10CF-BCE683414B7F0000 (1171 words)

	Edge: IN THE MATRIX: MARTIN REES
		I have known and admired Martin Rees since the early 1970's when we were postdocs together at Cambridge University.
		Martin Rees one of the most influential people working in astrophysical and cosmological theory.
		(MARTIN REES:) This is a really good time to be a cosmologist, because in the last few years some of the questions we've been addressing for decades have come into focus.
	www.edge.org /3rd_culture/rees03/rees_print.html (4885 words)

	SignOnSanDiego.com > News > Science/Health -- Rees' thesis
		Last year, Sir Martin Rees made a wager, part of a series of "long bets" by various cognoscenti on the future of science, technology and society.
		In the 21st century, Rees frets that the field is far more crowded, with everything from biological terror or error and genetic manipulation gone wrong to self-evolving nanomachines run amok and lab experiments that could conceivably destroy the universe.
		The unsettling thing, said Rees, is that if these changes do happen, the continued survival of the human species may depend upon future humans who are, in some elemental way, not at all like us.
	www.signonsandiego.com /news/science/20030507-9999_mz1c7rees.html (1488 words)

	Guardian Unlimited Books \| Review \| Is the end nigh?
		Sir Martin Rees, Britain's most distinguished theoretical astrophysicist and one of its best writers on matters cosmological, is no stranger to catastrophe; he has a professional interest in supernovae, gamma-ray bursts, cannibal galaxies and many of the universe's other savageries.
		Rees says that such goo is not in breach of any known physical laws, but that it may be as far beyond our current technology as a starship capable of flitting from planet to planet at 90% of the speed of light.
		As Rees notes, there is some merit in the provocative case for radically reduced expectations of privacy made by David Brin in his book The Transparent Society, but there is no denying that, at best, it would be quite a dislocation.
	books.guardian.co.uk /review/story/0,12084,975702,00.html (1079 words)

	The Observer \| Comment \| The Observer Profile: Sir Martin Rees
		Thus this grey-maned, hunched figure of Martin John Rees - he has suffered from curvature of the spine since adolescence - will join Isaac Newton, Humphry Davy, and Ernest Rutherford as head of the Royal Society, a post that is not without hazards, as many of Rees's predecessors have discovered.
		The only son of two Shropshire teachers, Rees had a relatively happy youth in which he revealed little interest in scientific matters and in the end only chose to pursue mathematics because the alternative - languages - were a lost cause to him.
		Rees fully endorses his recent predecessors' interventionist stand and is clearly bursting to have a punch-up - alright, a rigorous debate - over a number of issues, in particular the question of UK energy generation.
	www.guardian.co.uk /Observer/comment/story/0,6903,1461645,00.html (1624 words)

	The Space Library: Martin Rees' Our Cosmic Habitat
		In his new book Our Cosmic Habitat, Rees, a Royal Society Research Professor at Cambridge, takes a closer look at the idea that our universe is just part of a greater collective; part of a 'multiverse' in which most of the other universes are empty.
		Martin Rees: It is of course hard to conceive how 'alternative' sets of physical laws could manifest themselves -- we can't even envisage more than a tiny fraction of what is allowed by the actual laws of physics.
		Of course we mustn't be too anthropocentric: there could be complex evolution of a type very different from life as we know it.
	www.space.com /spacelibrary/books/library_rees_020104.html (1548 words)

	Conversation for Exploration - Martin Rees
		In this engaging and carefully reasoned account of our universe and its place within a grander scheme, Sir Martin Rees-one of the most creative and original of contemporary scientists-draws these advances together with his own up-to-the-minute research and that of his fellow astronomers and cosmologists.
		Carefully distinguishing between what is known from what is still only speculation in cosmology, Professor Rees argues that a family-even an infinity-of universes could have been created, some before and some after the one we inhabit, each in its own big bang.
		Rees shows how this multi-universe revolution in cosmological thought casts a piercing light on man's place in the cosmos, and argues that the conditions permitting the evolution of life stand on the razor's edge between a dead universe and one filled with living beings.
	www.lauralee.com /rees.htm (306 words)

	Amazon.co.uk: Books: Just Six Numbers: The Deep Forces That Shape the Universe (Science Masters S.) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Rees demonstrates how the cosmos is full of "fossils" from which we can deduce how our universe developed, as surely as we infer the Earth's past from the relics found in sedimentary rocks.
		Rees takes us on a journey through space and time with examples of atomic forces, gravity, cosmic structure and why we live in a three dimensional universe.
		Basically, Professor Rees describes the background behind how the numbers were developed, then explores the implications of the number (especially by looking at what happens if the number was much larger or smaller), and then ties the number to implications for other cosmological questions and puzzles.
	www.amazon.co.uk /exec/obidos/ASIN/0753810220 (2619 words)

	Sir Martin Rees, Astronomer Royal, to speak at UVIC (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		One of the leading figures in modern astronomy--Sir Martin Rees, Astronomer Royal--is coming to the University of Victoria to present a free public lecture highlighting recent breakthroughs in understanding the creation and development of the universe.
		Rees is Royal Society Research Professor at Cambridge University where he and Stephen Hawking (A Brief History of Time) are colleagues.
		Rees was appointed the 15th Astronomer Royal by Queen Elizabeth in 1995.
	astrowww.phys.uvic.ca /media/uvic/6.htm (376 words)

	Amazon.com: Books: Our Final Hour: A Scientist's Warning: How Terror, Error, and Environmental Disaster Threaten ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Rees, the U.K.'s Astronomer Royal and prolific author (Just Six Numbers; Our Cosmic Habitat), warns that the 21st century may well witness the extinction of mankind, a doomsday more likely to be caused by human error than by a natural catastrophe.
		Rees poses some hard questions about scientists' responsibility to forsake research that might lead to a malevolent genie being let out of its bottle and even to restrict the sharing of scientific information to prevent it from getting into the wrong hands.
		Rees does a good job of reminding us that science and technology are giving individuals, whatever their motivations, access to more and more power.
	www.amazon.com /exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0465068626?v=glance (3393 words)

	Amazon.co.uk: Books: Our Final Century?: Will the Human Race Survive the Twenty-first Century? (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Rees is vaguely optimistic on this point, offering solutions that would require a level of worldwide cooperation humans have yet to exhibit.
		Rees is clearly and expert on his subject, and isn't just a mad prophet in the desert calling down woe on the works of mankind.
		Sir Martin Rees tries to warn us that with ever-faster technological progress, the odds of a truly catastrophic mishap - either by accident or design - are going to be significant over the next century.
	www.amazon.co.uk /exec/obidos/ASIN/0099436868 (1134 words)

	Martin Rees wins cosmology prize (September 2001) - News - PhysicsWeb
		The astrophysicist Sir Martin Rees has won the 2001 Cosmology Prize of the Peter Gruber Foundation for his fundamental and diverse contributions to our understanding of the universe.
		Rees is both Astronomer Royal and Royal Society Research Professor at Cambridge University.
		In 1968, together with Dennis Sciama, Rees was the first to predict that fluctuations in the microwave background were due to the uneven distribution of matter in the universe.
	physicsweb.org /article/news/5/9/6 (245 words)

	The Cornell Daily Sun - Rees Explains Einstein (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Rees said general relatively was greatly ahead of its time when Einstein first constructed his theory, as it was hardly understood by scientists themselves, which "is in glaring contrast to today," as his theory is now invaluable to the understanding of various concepts of the cosmos, such as the existence of fl holes.
		Rees talked about the complex structure of elements within the world, saying that, for example, life on Earth is dependent on the physics of the planet, for "if gravity were any stronger, we would be crushed." Rees continued, saying, "if the physics were different...
		Rees is an Astronomer Royal in the United Kingdom and a professor of cosmology and astrophysics and master at Trinity College.
	www.cornellsun.com /vnews/display.v/ART/2005/04/14/425e0cf59957b (667 words)

	BBC NEWS \| In Depth \| Newsmakers \| Sir Martin Rees: Prophet of doom?
		Beyond this, Sir Martin discusses the sort of action which could be taken to improve the human race's chances of survival.
		And, in a wider context, Sir Martin examines the extent to which individuals might trade their own privacy in order to allow the state to combat new, insidious, forms of global terrorism: a sort of democratised form of Big Brother.
		Sir Martin's concern about the ever-quickening pace of technological change and the sinister ends to which it may be used has its own historical echoes.
	news.bbc.co.uk /1/hi/in_depth/uk/2000/newsmakers/2976279.stm (740 words)

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