Martin Rees
Martin Rees
Martin John Rees, Baron Rees of Ludlow, OM, FRS, FREng, FMedSciis 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. Rees currently sits on the Board of Sponsors for the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists...
NationalityBritish
ProfessionScientist
Date of Birth23 June 1942
essence together atoms
During the 20th century, we came to understand that the essence of all substances - their colour, texture, hardness and so forth - is set by their structure, on scales far smaller even than a microscope can see. Everything on Earth is made of atoms, which are, especially in living things, combined together in intricate molecular assemblages.
careers training scientist
Science isn't just for scientists - it's not just a training for careers.
technology space innovation
All space projects push the frontiers of technology and are drivers of innovation.
crafts tiny solar-system
I hope that by 2050 the entire solar system will have been explored and mapped by flotillas of tiny robotic craft.
issues accepting bigs
The politics is far harder than the science. And even if we accept the science we have a big issue of how to deal with it.
worry climate experts
I'm not a specialist in the science but I have followed it fairly closely and it seems to me that there is among the experts a clear consensus that potential climate change is something to worry about.