{{Infobox officeholder | honorific-prefix = The Right Honourable | name = The Lord Rees of Ludlow | honorific-suffix = | image = Official portrait of Lord Rees of Ludlow crop 2.jpg | caption = Official portrait, 2019 | title = President of the Royal Society | order = 60th | term_start = 2005 | term_end = 2010 | predecessor = The Lord May of Oxford | successor = Paul Nurse | title2 = President of the Royal Astronomical Society | order2 = 78th | term_start2 = 1992 | term_end2 = 1994 | predecessor2 = Ken Pounds | successor2 = Carole Jordan | title3 = Master of Trinity College, Cambridge | order3 = 39th | term_start3 = 2004 | term_end3 = 2012 | predecessor3 = Amartya Sen | successor3 = Sir Gregory Winter | title4 = Member of the House of Lords<br/>Lord Temporal | term_start4 = 6 September 2005<br/>Life Peerage | term_end4 = | birth_date = | birth_place = York, England | death_date = | death_place = | party = None (crossbencher) | spouse = | website = | module = {{Infobox scientist | embed = yes | field = Astronomy<br />Astrophysics | work_institution = University of Cambridge<br/>University of Sussex | education = Shrewsbury School | alma_mater = University of Cambridge (BA, MA, PhD) | thesis_title = Physical processes in radio sources and inter-galactic medium | thesis_year = 1967 | thesis_url = http://copac.jisc.ac.uk/id/6118741?style=html | doctoral_advisor = Dennis Sciama | doctoral_students = Susan Stepney | known_for = Cosmic microwave background radiation, quasars<br/>Astronomer Royal<br/> President of Royal Society | prizes = Dannie Heineman Prize for Astrophysics (1984)<br/>Gold Medal of the Royal Astronomical Society (1987)<br/>Balzan Prize (1989)<br/>Bower Award (1998)<br/>Gruber Prize in Cosmology (2001)<br/> Albert Einstein World Award of Science (2003)<br/>Michael Faraday Prize (2004)<br/>Crafoord Prize (2005)}<br/>Order of Merit (2007)<br/>Templeton Prize (2011)<br/>Isaac Newton Medal (2012)<br/>Dalton Medal (2012)<br/>HonFREng (2007)<br/>Nierenberg Prize (2015)<br />Fritz Zwicky Prize (2020)}} | module2 = }} Wikipedia
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