Martin John Rees, Baron Rees of Ludlow, OM, PRS (born June 23, 1942 in York) is an English cosmologist and astrophysicist. He has been Astronomer Royal since 1995, and Master of Trinity College, Cambridge since 2004. He became President of the Royal Society on December 1, 2005.
Books in order of publication:
Cosmic Coincidences: Dark Matter, Mankind, and Anthropic Cosmology (co-author John Gribbin), 1989, Bantam
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: The Deep Forces That Shape the Universe, 1999
Our Cosmic Habitat, 2001
Our Final Hour: A Scientist’s Warning: How Terror, Error, and Environmental Disaster Threaten Humankind’s Future In This Century—On Earth and Beyond (UK title: Our Final Century: Will the Human Race Survive the Twenty-first Century?), 2003;
From Here to Infinity: Scientific Horizons, 2011
On the Future: Prospects for Humanity, October 2018, Princeton University Press;
The End of Astronauts (co-author Donald Goldsmith), 2022, Harvard University Press
If Science is to Save us, 2022, Polity Press
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