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I asked him permission to put this image:
http://www.ast.cam.ac.uk/IoA/staff/mjr/rees_bw.jpg —The preceding unsigned comment was added by 200.69.103.2 ( talk • contribs) 08:05, 3 December 2004 (UTC)
Prof. Rees has given his permission for the current photo to be used, so I've tagged it as a promotional photo. It's much better than using a book cover! JRawle ( Talk) 16:01, 19 May 2006 (UTC)
What is the correct honour whilst Martin Rees is President of the Royal Scoiety? I believe it is P(resident)RS but saw this had been changed before and changed back Rogwan 15:02, 9 June 2006 (UTC)
I believe the argument hinges on whether PRS is recognised as a postnominal anywhere outside the RS. They use it on his bio page there [1]... but then they also use "Kt" for knight which is not formally correct. The article on previous president Lord Adrian still has "PRS" but I am certain they don't keep it after the end of their term. It is unusual to have postnominal letters for a specific office, particularly one that is only held for a few years. You could e-mail someone at the RS to ask. JRawle ( Talk) 16:27, 9 June 2006 (UTC)
"Presidents of some societies have special letters to signify their appointment. The President of the Royal Society has PRS after his name, for instance, but these letters are used only within the particular society." (Debrett's Correct Form under "Fellowship of Learned Societies") Proteus (Talk) 16:53, 9 June 2006 (UTC)
Surely the title should be Martin, Lord Rees of Ludlow, not Martin Rees, Baron Rees of Ludlow? "Lord Rees of Ludlow" is his title according to [2], and Baron isn't used as a title in England. -- Robminchin 04:04, 4 August 2006 (UTC)
I have a doubt with his knighthood, I pressume he is KBE. Why not using in the article? Pablo_Castellanos —Preceding undated comment was added at 23:25, 15 January 2009 (UTC).
He's neither a theist nor an atheist. He always seems to sidestep the God question. Agnostic Anglican would be an appropriate title. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 208.96.110.56 ( talk) 01:57, 1 April 2009 (UTC)
No mention of his personal life anywhere. Married? Kids? "Confirmed bachelor"? —Preceding unsigned comment added by 86.156.189.247 ( talk) 23:39, 13 March 2008 (UTC)
He is married to Caroline Humphrey. Please add a link to her page. 160.39.55.29 ( talk) 21:09, 6 November 2011 (UTC)
Also there is no mention to him being educated at Bedstone College, Bucknell, Shropshire. Which I know for a fact he did attend because I also went there and he has been back since. The article on Bedstone also gives reference to him attending. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 80.229.41.225 ( talk) 12:33, 10 April 2009 (UTC)
Shouldn't it be "is an British cosmologist" rather than "an English cosmologist" as English isn't a nationality? —Preceding unsigned comment added by 131.111.183.9 ( talk) 14:19, 19 March 2008 (UTC)
In, "The Emergence of Complexity in Mathematics, Physics, Chemistry, and Biology: Proceedings of the Plenary Session of the Pontifical Academy of Sciences", 27-31 October 1992, Day Two 28 October 1992, "The Epoch of Galaxy Formation", Martin J. Rees, University of Cambridge, Page 223, with possible translation(s) into this English, reads:
"And gravitating objects have the peculiar property that when they *lose* energy they get *hotter* - as Professor Thirring has explained, their specific heat is *negative*. For instance, if the sun's radiative losses weren't compensated by nuclear fusion, it would contract and deflate, but would end up with a *hotter* centre than before: to establish a new and more compact equilibrium where pressure can ballance a (now *stronger*) gravitational force, the central temperature must *rise*."
Which I interpretively-correct to context, as far as I can, to this:
"And gravitating [sufficiently large gaseous active fusion] objects have the peculiar property that when they [radiatively] *lose* energy they get *hotter* - as Professor Thirring has explained, [their specific heat is *negative*]. For instance, if the sun's radiative losses weren't compensated by nuclear fusion, it would contract and deflate, but would end up with a *hotter* centre than before: to establish a new and more compact equilibrium where pressure can ballance [(sic)] a (now *stronger*) gravitational force, the central temperature must *rise*." LoneRubberDragon ( talk) 20:22, 9 September 2008 (UTC)
What does, [their specific heat is *negative*] mean, that Rees writes, attempting to cite to Physicist Professor W. Thirring's works? Specific heat is the always-greater-than-0 measure of matter's thermal kinetic energy capacity. Perhaps it should read, [their specific heat is *declining*], for English, as the nucleons increase mass in a stellar fusion shell series, which seems a reasonable interpretation. Maybe I've interpreted this Rees paragraph wrong, in some other way I can't scan rightly.
I added [sufficiently large gaseous active fusion] to (objects), because it reduces the errors of the Martin J. Rees' writing, because after a star's death as a white dwarf, or neutron star, it cools off in time, and a "star without fusion" (a gas giant or brown dwarf) also cools off in time, and I am assuming that nucleon-fusion in the shells of aging stars, spending their fuel, inevitably leads to increasing temperatures, as Rees claims. LoneRubberDragon ( talk) 06:41, 21 September 2008 (UTC)
Wiki:specific heat:in [Jg^(-1)K^(-1)]:for some elements in fusion-supernovae series and products, are:
Hydrogen 14.30
Helium 5.193
Neon 1.0301
Oxygen 0.918
Carbon (graphite) 0.710
Silicon 0.703
Iron 0.450
Uranium 0.116
LoneRubberDragon ( talk) 20:22, 9 September 2008 (UTC)
everyone can predict an eminent earthquake that generates a tsunami in Japan that would damage the local economy, that does not make him predict the future. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 189.58.47.30 ( talk) 16:57, 25 May 2011 (UTC)
everyone can predict an eminent earthquake that generates a tsunami in Japan that would damage the local economy, that does not make him predict the future. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Wildstarlights ( talk • contribs) 16:59, 25 May 2011 (UTC)
I made a series of amendments to this page based on the instructions of Martin Rees, in my role as Web Editor at the Royal Society. Please leave a message on my talk page if any of the changes are contentious. Thanks Andeggs ( talk) 09:47, 9 August 2011 (UTC)
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According to the article on Evidence of absence this maxim "belongs to" Martin Rees. That article says that when Carl Sagan used it he was citing Rees' maxim. True? Important? Ileanadu ( talk) 21:14, 8 February 2018 (UTC)
I find it erroneous to call him a member of the Labour party. Yes, he supports Labour, but sits as a Crossbencher in the Lords - there is a fine line between "membership" and "party preference" , and I have not heard of any source saying that he is a member of Labour. Someone needs to have a look at that - I'll just add a citation needed tag. 183.83.137.243 ( talk) 06:59, 18 February 2020 (UTC)
I have heard in some Arabic media outlets that he predicted a "bioterror" or "bioerror" that would kill one million people in 2020 see.-- SharʿabSalam▼ ( talk) 21:42, 12 April 2020 (UTC)
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