Lord Rees of Ludlow

A Cosmic Perspective: Four Centuries of Expanding Horizons

Abstract

The 'curious and ingenious' men who met at Gresham College and founded the Royal Society were fascinated by the Sun and Planets; the 'fixed stars' were a distant mystery to them. Over succeeding centuries, cosmic horizons have expanded - largely thanks to ever more powerful instruments. So has our understanding - though each advance brings into focus a new set of mysteries. Following the lecture there will be a discussion on topics of current astronomical interest, with an invited panel of former Gresham Professors of Astronomy.

Biography

Martin John Rees, Baron Rees of Ludlow, Kt, OM, FRS, Hon FREng, F MedSci is a British cosmologist and astrophysicist. He has been Astronomer Royal of the Royal Observatory at Greenwich since 1995, was Master of Trinity College, Cambridge from 2004 to 2012 and President of the Royal Society between 2005 and 2010.

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