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British physicist
Sir Michael Victor Berry ,
FRS ,
FRSE ,
FRSA ,
HonFInstP (born 14 March 1941) is a British
mathematical physicist at the
University of Bristol , England.
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 .
Early life and education
Berry was brought up in a
Jewish family and was the son of a London taxi driver and a dressmaker.
[2] Berry earned a
BSc in
physics from the
University of Exeter where he met his first wife (a sociology student with whom he had his first child)
[3] and a PhD from the
University of St. Andrews .
[4] His thesis is titled The diffraction of light by ultrasound .
[5]
Career and research
He has spent his whole career at the University of Bristol. He was a
research fellow , 1965–67; lecturer, 1967–74;
reader , 1974–78; Professor of Physics, 1978–88; and Royal Society Research Professor 1988–2006. Since 2006, he is Melville Wills Professor of Physics (Emeritus) at Bristol University.
[6]
Publications
Awards and honours
He was elected a
Fellow of the Royal Society (FRS) in 1982
[9] and knighted in 1996.
[10] From 2006 to 2012 he was editor of
Proceedings of the Royal Society A .
Berry has been given the following prizes and awards:
[11]
Maxwell Medal and Prize ,
Institute of Physics , 1978
Elected
Fellow of the Royal Society of London, 1982
Elected
Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts , 1983
Elected Fellow of the
Royal Institution , 1983
Elected Member of the
Royal Society of Sciences in Uppsala , Sweden, 1986
Bakerian Lecturer,
Royal Society , 1987
Elected member of the
European Academy of Sciences and Arts , 1989
Dirac Medal , Institute of Physics, 1990
Lilienfeld Prize ,
American Physical Society , 1990
Royal Medal , Royal Society, 1990
Naylor Prize and Lectureship in Applied Mathematics,
London Mathematical Society , 1992
Foreign Member: US
National Academy of Sciences , 1995
Dirac Medal ,
International Centre for Theoretical Physics , 1996
Kapitsa Medal ,
Russian Academy of Sciences , 1997
Wolf Prize for Physics,
Wolf Foundation ,
Israel , 1998, jointly with
Yakir Aharonov
Honorary Fellow of the Institute of Physics, 1999
Forder Lectureship ,
London Mathematical Society , 1999
[12]
Foreign Member:
Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences , 2000
Ig Nobel Prize for Physics,
2000 (shared with
Andre Geim for "The Physics of Flying Frogs"). By 2022 his and Geim's Ig Nobel for the magnetic levitation of a frog was reportedly part of the inspiration for China's
lunar gravity research facility.
[13]
[14]
Onsager Medal ,
Norwegian University of Science and Technology , 2001
Gibbs Lecturer,
American Mathematical Society , 2002
[15]
1st and 3rd prizes, Visions of Science,
Novartis /
Daily Telegraph , 2002
Elected to
Royal Society of Edinburgh , 2005
Pólya Prize ,
London Mathematical Society , 2005
Doctor of Science,
honoris causa ,
University of Glasgow , 2007
Selected
Clarivate Citation laureate in Physics in 2009, jointly with Aharonov.
[16]
Doctor of Science,
honoris causa ,
Russian-Armenian (Slavonic) University in
Yerevan , 2012
Lorentz Medal , 2014
[17]
Lise Meitner Distinguished Lecture , 2019
See also
References
^
Michael Berry at the
Mathematics Genealogy Project
^
Rubinstein, William D. ; Jolles, Michael;
Rubinstein, Hilary L. (2011).
The Palgrave Dictionary of Anglo-Jewish History . Palgrave Macmillan. p. 87.
ISBN
9781403939104 .
^
"BBC Newshour" . Retrieved 21 January 2024 .
^
"Academic History of Professor Sir Michael Berry" . University of Bristol. Retrieved 22 July 2009 .
^
Berry, Michael (1965).
The diffraction of light by ultrasound (PhD thesis).
University of St. Andrews .
hdl :
10023/22569 .
OCLC
1507853 .
^
"History" . PROFESSOR SIR MICHAEL VICTOR BERRY, FRS . 28 June 2013. Retrieved 2 October 2023 .
^
Longair, M. S. (1991). "Book review: Principles of cosmology and gravitation by M. V. Sims". Space Science Reviews . 56 (1–2): 246.
Bibcode :
1991SSRv...56..246L .
doi :
10.1007/BF00178416 .
S2CID
189795860 .
^
"Professor Sir Michael Berry - Our People" .
University of Bristol , UK. Retrieved 24 November 2023 .
^
"Fellows Directory" . The Royal Society. Retrieved 3 May 2018 .
^
"The London Gazette" (PDF) . HMSO. Retrieved 3 May 2018 .
^
"Professor Sir Michael Berry: Prizes and Awards" .
University of Bristol , UK. Retrieved 13 March 2011 .
^
"LMS-NZMS Forder and Aitken Lectureships | London Mathematical Society" . www.lms.ac.uk . Retrieved 13 November 2018 .
^
"China building "Artificial Moon" that simulates low gravity with magnets" . Futurism.com . Recurrent Ventures. Retrieved 17 January 2022 . 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.
^ Stephen Chen (12 January 2022).
"China has built an artificial moon that simulates low-gravity conditions on Earth" .
South China Morning Post . Retrieved 17 January 2022 . 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.
^ 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 .
MR
1962297 .
^
"Thomson Reuters Predicts Nobel Laureates" . www.newswire.ca . Retrieved 4 October 2023 .
^
"Michael Berry" . knaw.nl . KNAW. Retrieved 3 April 2022 .
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