Michael Berry is a British theoretical physicist, born in 1941, known for discovering the Berry phase, a geometric phase phenomenon in quantum mechanics and optics, along with related concepts including the Berry connection and curvature, the Berry-Tabor conjecture and work on quantum chaos. He spent his entire career at the University of Bristol, rising from research fellow in 1965 to Royal Society Research Professor in 1988, and holds the title Melville Wills Professor of Physics Emeritus. He was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1982, was knighted in 1996, and received the Lorentz Medal in 2014 along with an Ig Nobel Prize in Physics in 2000 for research on magnetic frog levitation. He received the Wolf Prize in Physics in 1998, shared with Yakir Aharonov.
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He is the Melville Wills Professor of Physics (Emeritus) at the University of Bristol.
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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) Isaac Newton Medal (2025)
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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) Isaac Newton Medal (2025)
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