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Annual Review of Astronomy and Astrophysics

Volume 60, 2022

Cosmology and High-Energy Astrophysics: A 50-Year Perspective on Personalities, Progress, and Prospects

Abstract

In the 1960s, novel and increasingly powerful observational techniques opened up the field of high-energy astrophysics. Cosmology started to become an empirical science, and there was a resurgence in the study of general relativity. Martin Rees became a graduate student at the University of Cambridge during that period and subsequently held postdoc positions in the United States. He was therefore fortunate to have a close-up perspective on some of these developments and to interact with many senior figures who were spearheading these advances. He himself became a phenomenologist, contributing his own ideas to several topics in these fields and working with many collaborators. This article offers an assessment of some key subsequent developments and personal perspectives from a diverse career spanning more than 50 years.

Keyword(s): autobiography, black holes, cosmic jets, early Universe, galaxy formation
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Cosmology and High-Energy Astrophysics: A 50-Year Perspective on Personalities, Progress, and Prospects
Annual Review of Astronomy and Astrophysics 60, 1 (2022); https://doi.org/10.1146/annurev-astro-111021-084639
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