--- title: Martin Rees | TIME description: Rees is Astronomer Royal, former President of the Royal Society, Fellow (and former Master) of Trinity College, Cambridge, and Emeritus Professor of Cosmology and Astrophysics at the University of Cambridge. His latest book is If Science Is to Save Us canonical: https://time.com/author/martin-rees/ og:title: TIME | Current & Breaking News | National & World Updates og:description: Breaking news and analysis from time.com. Politics, world news, photos, video, tech reviews, health, science, and entertainment news. og:url: https://time.com/author/martin-rees/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production og:image:width: 300 og:image:height: 300 og:image:alt: Breaking news and analysis from time.com. Politics, world news, photos, video, tech reviews, health, science, and entertainment news. og:type: profile twitter:card: summary twitter:title: TIME | Current & Breaking News | National & World Updates twitter:description: Breaking news and analysis from time.com. Politics, world news, photos, video, tech reviews, health, science, and entertainment news. twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production --- # Martin Rees ## Martin Rees Rees is Astronomer Royal, former President of the Royal Society, Fellow (and former Master) of Trinity College, Cambridge, and Emeritus Professor of Cosmology and Astrophysics at the University of Cambridge. His latest book is [If Science Is to Save Us](https://www.amazon.com/If-Science-Save-Martin-Rees/dp/1509554203) ## Martin Rees *  Apr 24, 2024 ### [We Still Don't Fully Understand Time](https://time.com/6969823/martin-rees-time/) We can measure time but there are all kinds of time that we still can't really fathom. [IDEAS](/section/ideas/) *  Oct 27, 2022 ### [The Problem With the Nobel Prizes](https://time.com/6225572/nobel-prizes-problem/) The Nobel Prizes often give us an inaccurate view of scientific progress. There is a better way to d... [IDEAS](/section/ideas/) Meta: null ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"Organization","@id":"https://time.com/","name":"TIME","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/","name":"Home"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/author/martin-rees/","name":"Martin Rees"}}]},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"Person","@id":"https://time.com/author/martin-rees/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/author/martin-rees/"},"name":"Martin Rees","jobTitle":null,"description":"Rees is Astronomer Royal, former President of the Royal Society, Fellow (and former Master) of Trinity College, Cambridge, and Emeritus Professor of Cosmology and Astrophysics at the University of Cambridge. His latest book is If Science Is to Save Us","url":"https://time.com/author/martin-rees/","worksFor":{"@type":"Organization","name":"TIME","url":"https://time.com/"}}] ```