Quote of the day
Policemen so cherish their status as keepers of the peace and protectors of the public that they have occasionally been known to beat to death those citizens or groups who question that status.
Martin Rees
Born: June 23, 1942 (age 82)
Bio: Martin John Rees is an English cosmologist and astrophysicist. He has been Astronomer Royal since 1995, Master of Trinity College, Cambridge since 2004, and President of the Royal Society since 2005.
Known for:
- Our Final Hour (2003)
- Just Six Numbers (1999)
- Our Cosmic Habitat (2001)
- Before the beginning (1954)
- New perspectives in astrophysical cosmology (1995)
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