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== Early life and education == Rees was born on 23 June 1942 in [[York]], England.<ref name="whoswho">Anon (2017) {{Who's Who | title=REES OF LUDLOW | id = U32152 | edition = online [[Oxford University Press]]|location=Oxford}} {{doi|10.1093/ww/9780199540884.013.32152}} {{subscription required}}</ref><ref>GRO Register of Births: SEP 1942 9c 1465 YORK β Martin J. Rees, mmn=Bett</ref> After a peripatetic life during the war his parents, both teachers, settled with Rees, an only child, in a rural part of [[Shropshire]] near the border with Wales. There, his parents founded [[Bedstone#Bedstone College|Bedstone College]], a boarding school based on progressive educational concepts.<ref name="templetonprize.org">{{Cite web|url=https://www.templetonprize.org/templeton-prize-winners-2/|title=Templeton Prize Winners β Discover Laureates From 1973 to Today|website=Templeton Prize}}</ref> He was educated at Bedstone College, then from the age of 13 at [[Shrewsbury School]]. He studied for the [[mathematical tripos]] at [[Trinity College, Cambridge]],<ref name="whoswho"/> graduating with [[first class honours]]. He then undertook post-graduate research at Cambridge and completed a PhD supervised by [[Dennis W. Sciama|Dennis Sciama]] in 1967.<ref name=mathgene/><ref name="reesphd">{{cite thesis|degree=PhD|first=Martin|last=Rees|title=Physical Processes in Radio Sources and the Intergalactic Medium|publisher=University of Cambridge|date=1967|url=http://copac.jisc.ac.uk/id/6118741?style=html|website=copac.jisc.ac.uk|access-date=30 October 2017|archive-date=13 June 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180613184309/https://copac.jisc.ac.uk/id/6118741?style=html|url-status=dead}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.ft.com/cms/s/2/7c844532-b80b-11e0-8868-00144feabdc0.html#axzz2IdKRAN00|archive-url=https://ghostarchive.org/archive/20221210221216/https://www.ft.com/content/7c844532-b80b-11e0-8868-00144feabdc0#axzz2IdKRAN00|archive-date=10 December 2022|url-access=subscription|url-status=live|title=Inventory: Martin Rees|publisher=[[Financial Times]]|year=2014|access-date=31 August 2014}}{{subscription required}}</ref> Rees' post-graduate work in astrophysics in the mid-1960s coincided with an explosion of new discoveries, with breakthroughs ranging from confirmation of the [[Big Bang]], the discovery of [[neutron stars]] and [[black holes]], and a host of other revelations.<ref name="templetonprize.org"/>
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