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CAREER Rees was educated at Shrewsbury School and Trinity College, Cambridge , and studied in the United States 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. From 1992 to 2003 he was Royal Society Research Professor, and from 2003 Professor of Cosmology and Astrophysics . He was Professor of Astronomy at Gresham College , London, in 1975 and became a Fellow Of The Royal Society in 1979. He also holds Visiting Professorships at Imperial College London and at the University Of Leicester . In a career that has seen him publish over 500 research papers, he has made important contributions in the origin of Cosmic Microwave Background Radiation , as well as Galaxy clustering and formation. His studies of the distribution of Quasar s proved a strong argument against the Steady State Theory , and he was one of the first to propose that enormous Black Hole s power the quasars. He is also a well-respected and popular publicist of Astronomy and Science in general. On 29 March 2005 , it was announced that he had been nominated as the next President Of The Royal Society , the UK 's national academy of science. His selection as a " People's Peer " to sit as a Crossbencher in the House Of Lords was announced on 22 July 2005 and on 6 September he was created Baron Rees of Ludlow, of Ludlow in the County Of Shropshire . HONOURS Awards
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QUOTE :"Once the threshold is crossed when there is a self-sustaining level of life in space, then life's long-range future will be secure irrespective of any of the risks on Earth (with the single exception of the catastrophic destruction of space itself). Will this happen before our technical civilisation disintegrates, leaving this as a might-have-been? Will the self-sustaining Space Communities be established before a catastrophe sets back the prospect of any such enterprise, perhaps foreclosing it for ever? We live at what could be a defining moment for the cosmos, not just for our Earth." ~ ''Our Final Century'' by Martin Rees SEE ALSO EXTERNAL LINKS
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