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Martin Rees

Professor Sir Martin Rees has been Astronomer Royal since 1995 and Master of Trinity College, Cambridge since 2004. Educated at Trinity College, Cambridge, he studied in the US before taking a professorship at Sussex University. Returning to Cambridge, he held the post of Plumian Professor until 1991 and was director of the Institute of Astronomy there. He was knighted in 1992.

In a career that has seen him publish over 500 research papers, he has made important contributions in the origin of the cosmic microwave background, as well as galaxy clustering and formation. His studies of the distribution of quasars proved a strong argument against the steady state theory, and he was one of the first to propose that enormous black holes power the quasars. He is also a well-respected and popular publicist of astronomy and science in general.

His published books are:

• "Cosmic Coincidences" 1989.
• "New perspectives in astrophysical cosmology" 1995.
• "Gravity's fatal attraction: black holes in the universe" 1995.
• "Before the beginning - our universe and others" 1997.
• "Just Six Numbers" 2000.
• "Our Cosmic Habitat" 2001.
• Our Final Hour (UK title: Our Final Century), 2003, ISBN 0465068626

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