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Michael Berry (physicist)

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Sir
Michael Berry
FRSFRSEFRSAHonFInstP
Michael Berry holding Lorentz Medal
Michael Berry withLorentz Medal,February 2015
Born
Michael Victor Berry

(1941-03-14)14 March 1941(age 83)
Surrey,England, United Kingdom
Alma materUniversity of Exeter(BSc)
University of St. Andrews(PhD)
Known forBerry phase
Berry connection and curvature
Berry–Robbins problem
Berry–Tabor conjecture
Weyl–Berry conjecture
Quantum carpet
Quantum chaos
AwardsMaxwell 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
InstitutionsUniversity of Bristol
ThesisThe diffraction of light by ultrasound(1965)
Doctoral advisorRobert Balson Dingle[1]
Doctoral studentsJenny Nelson
Jonathan Keating
Websitemichaelberryphysics.wordpress

Sir Michael Victor Berry(born 14 March 1941) is a Britishmathematical physicistat theUniversity of Bristol,England.

He is known for theBerry phase,a phenomenon observed e.g. inquantum mechanicsandoptics,as well asBerry connection and curvature.He specializes in semiclassical physics (asymptotic physics,quantum chaos), applied to wave phenomena inquantum mechanicsand other areas such asoptics.

Early life and education

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Berry was brought up in aJewish familyand was the son of a London taxi driver and a dressmaker.[2]Berry earned aBScinphysicsfrom theUniversity of Exeterwhere he met his first wife (a sociology student with whom he had his first child)[3]and a PhD from theUniversity of St. Andrews.[4]His thesis is titledThe diffraction of light by ultrasound.[5]

Career and research

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He has spent his whole career at the University of Bristol. He was aresearch fellow,1965–67; lecturer, 1967–74;reader,1974–78; Professor of Physics, 1978–88; and Royal Society Research Professor 1988–2006. Since 2006, he has been Melville Wills Professor of Physics (Emeritus) at Bristol University.[6]

Publications

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  • Diffraction of Light by Ultrasound,1966
  • Principles of Cosmology and Gravitation,1976;2nd edition.1989; pbk{{cite book}}:CS1 maint: postscript (link)[7]
  • About 395 research papers, book reviews, etc., on physics[8]

Awards and honours

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He was elected aFellow of the Royal Society (FRS) in 1982[9]and knighted in 1996.[10]From 2006 to 2012 he was editor ofProceedings of the Royal Society A.

Berry has been given the following prizes and awards:[11]

See also

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References

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  1. ^Michael Berryat theMathematics Genealogy Project
  2. ^Rubinstein, William D.;Jolles, Michael;Rubinstein, Hilary L.(2011).The Palgrave Dictionary of Anglo-Jewish History.Palgrave Macmillan. p. 87.ISBN9781403939104.
  3. ^"BBC Newshour".Retrieved21 January2024.
  4. ^"Academic History of Professor Sir Michael Berry".University of Bristol.Retrieved22 July2009.
  5. ^ Berry, Michael (1965).The diffraction of light by ultrasound(PhD thesis).University of St. Andrews.hdl:10023/22569.OCLC1507853.
  6. ^"History".PROFESSOR SIR MICHAEL VICTOR BERRY, FRS.28 June 2013.Retrieved2 October2023.
  7. ^Longair, M. S.(1991). "Book review:Principles of cosmology and gravitationby M. V. Sims ".Space Science Reviews.56(1–2): 246.Bibcode:1991SSRv...56..246L.doi:10.1007/BF00178416.S2CID189795860.
  8. ^"Professor Sir Michael Berry - Our People".University of Bristol,UK.Retrieved24 November2023.
  9. ^"Fellows Directory".The Royal Society.Retrieved3 May2018.
  10. ^"The London Gazette"(PDF).HMSO.Retrieved3 May2018.
  11. ^"Professor Sir Michael Berry: Prizes and Awards".University of Bristol,UK.Retrieved13 March2011.
  12. ^"LMS-NZMS Forder and Aitken Lectureships | London Mathematical Society".lms.ac.uk.Retrieved13 November2018.
  13. ^"China building" Artificial Moon "that simulates low gravity with magnets".Futurism.Recurrent Ventures. 12 January 2022.Retrieved17 January2022.Interestingly, the facility was partly inspired by previous research conducted by Russian physicist Andrew Geim in which he floated a frog with a magnet. The experiment earned Geim the Ig Nobel Prize in Physics, a satirical award given to unusual scientific research. It's cool that a quirky experiment involving floating a frog could lead to something approaching an honest-to-God antigravity chamber.
  14. ^Stephen Chen (12 January 2022)."China has built an artificial moon that simulates low-gravity conditions on Earth".South China Morning Post.Retrieved17 January2022.It is said to be the first of its kind and could play a key role in the country's future lunar missions. Landscape is supported by a magnetic field and was inspired by experiments to levitate a frog.
  15. ^Berry, Michael (2003)."Making light of mathematics: 75th Gibbs Lecture".Bull. Amer. Math. Soc. (N.S.).40(2): 229–237.doi:10.1090/S0273-0979-03-00972-8.MR1962297.
  16. ^"Thomson Reuters Predicts Nobel Laureates".newswire.ca.Retrieved4 October2023.
  17. ^"Michael Berry".knaw.nl.KNAW.Retrieved3 April2022.
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