4587 Rees are credited with the discovery of . This minor planet was named after Martin Rees (born 1942), a much awarded English cosmologist and astrophysicist who has studied the galactic evolution. Rees became Astronomer Royal and President of the Royal Society in 1995 and 2005, respectively. He is also the director of the Institute of Astronomy and a professor of astronomy at the University of Cambridge. The asteroid's name was proposed by Jan Oort, and the was published by the Minor Planet Center on 28 April 1991 (). "Rees" is an assumed, stony S-type asteroid. Other sources published by EARN assume
Ennis Rees university until his retirement in 1988. Rees was named to be South Carolina's third poet laureate by Governor Dick Riley in 1984. Originally a life-time appointment, Riley changed the position some during his governorship and appointed Freeman to only a one-year term of office. Rees was married to the former Marion Lott. They had three children. In addition to his published books, some of Ennis' work has appeared in "Journal of English", "The Southern Review", "The New Republic", and "Germanic Philology". Ennis Rees Ennis Samuel Rees, Jr. (March 17, 1925 – March 24, 2009) was an American poet and professor.