Sir Michael (Victor) Berry, born 14 March 1941, is a mathematical physicist at the University of Bristol. March 14 is the 73rd day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar (74th in leap years) with 292 days remaining in the year. ... For the movie, see 1941 (film) 1941 (MCMXLI) was a common year starting on Wednesday (the link is to a full 1941 calendar). ... Physicists working in a government lab A physicist is a scientist who is a practitioner of physics. ... The University of Bristol is a university in Bristol, England. ...

He was elected a fellow of the Royal Society of London in 1982 and knighted in 1996. From 2006 he has been Editor of the prestigious journal, Proceedings of the Royal Society A. ... 1982 (MCMLXXXII) was a common year starting on Friday of the Gregorian calendar. ... 1996 (MCMXCVI) was a leap year starting on Monday of the Gregorian calendar, and was designated the International Year for the Eradication of Poverty. ... Cover of Proceedings of the Royal Society is a scientific journal published by the Royal Society of London. ...

He is famous among other things for the Berry phase (also called geometric phase), a phenomenon observed e.g. in quantum mechanics and optics. He specialises in semiclassical physics (asymptotic physics, quantum chaos), applied to wave phenomena in quantum mechanics and other areas such as optics. See also Berry phase. In quantum mechanics, the Berry phase is a phase acquired by quantum states when subjected to adiabatic processes, resulting from the geometrical properties of the parameter space of the Hamiltonian. ... Fig. ... Optical redirects here. ... Quantum chaos is an interdisciplinary branch of physics, arising from so-called semi-classical models. ... Fig. ... Optical redirects here. ... In quantum mechanics, the Berry phase is a phase acquired by quantum states when subjected to adiabatic processes, resulting from the geometrical properties of the parameter space of the Hamiltonian. ...

Career

Sir Michael has a BSc from the University of Exeter and a PhD from the University of St. Andrews. Since then, he has spent his whole career at the University of Bristol: Research Fellow, 1965-7; Lecturer, 1967-74; Reader, 1974-78; Professor of Physics, 1978-88; Royal Society Research Professor since 1988. The University of Exeter is a university in Exeter, England. ... University of St Andrews The University of St Andrews was founded between 1410-1413 and is the oldest university in Scotland and the third oldest in the United Kingdom. ... 1965 (MCMLXV) was a common year starting on Friday (the link is to a full 1965 calendar). ... 1967 (MCMLXVII) was a common year starting on Sunday of the Gregorian calendar (the link is to a full 1967 calendar). ... 1974 (MCMLXXIV) was a common year starting on Tuesday. ... 1978 (MCMLXXVIII) was a common year starting on Sunday. ... 1988 (MCMLXXXVIII) was a leap year starting on Friday of the Gregorian calendar. ...

Awards

• Maxwell Medal and Prize, Institute of Physics, 1978
• Bakerian Lecturer, Royal Society, 1987
• Member, Royal Society of Sciences in Uppsala, 1988
• Dirac Medal and Prize, 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 Science, 1995
• Dirac Medal, International Centre for Theoretical Physics, 1996
• Kapitsa Medal, Russian Academy of Sciences, 1997
• Wolf Prize for Physics, Wolf Foundation, Israel, 1998
• Honorary Fellow of the Institute of Physics, 1999
• Foreign Member: Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences, 2000
• Ig Nobel Prize for Physics, 2000 (shared with Andrey Geim for 'the Physics of Flying Frogs')
• Onsager Medal, Norwegian Technical University, 2001
• 1st and 3rd prizes, Visions of Science, Novartis/Daily Telegraph, 2002
• Elected to Royal Society of Edinburgh 2005
• Pólya Prize, London Mathematical Society 2005

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Publications

• Diffraction of Light by Ultrasound, 1966
• Principles of Cosmology and Gravitation, 1976
• About 385 research papers, book reviews, etc, on physics

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External links

• Article on special functions
• Berry's Homepage

See also

• List of British Jews
• List of Jewish Fellows of the Royal Society