Michael Berry (physicist)
Sir Michael Victor Berry, FRS, FRSE, FRSA, HonFInstP (born 14 March 1941) is a British mathematical physicist at the University of Bristol, England.
Sir Michael Berry | |
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Michael Berry with Lorentz Medal, February 2015 | |
| Born | Michael Victor Berry 14 March 1941 Surrey, England, United Kingdom |
| Alma mater | University of Exeter (BSc) University of St. Andrews (PhD) |
| Known for | Berry phase Berry connection and curvature Berry–Robbins problem Berry–Tabor conjecture Weyl–Berry conjecture Quantum carpet Quantum chaos |
| Awards | Maxwell Medal and Prize (1978) Fellow of the Royal Society (1982) Lilienfeld Prize (1990) Royal Medal (1990) IOP Dirac Medal (1990) Naylor Prize and Lectureship (1992) ICTP Dirac Medal (1996) Knight Bachelor (1996) Wolf Prize (1998) Ig Nobel prize (2000) Onsager Medal (2001) Pólya Prize (2005) Lorentz Medal (2014) |
| Scientific career | |
| Institutions | University of Bristol |
| Thesis | The diffraction of light by ultrasound (1965) |
| Doctoral advisor | Robert Balson Dingle |
| Doctoral students | Jenny Nelson Jonathan Keating |
| Website | michaelberryphysics |
He is known for the Berry phase, a phenomenon observed e.g. in quantum mechanics and optics, as well as Berry connection and curvature. He specializes in semiclassical physics (asymptotic physics, quantum chaos), applied to wave phenomena in quantum mechanics and other areas such as optics.
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