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Michael Berry

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Sir Michael Victor Berry (born 14 March 1941) is a British theoretical physicist. He is the Melville Wills Professor of Physics (Emeritus) at the University of Bristol. Berry is known for the Berry phase, a phenomenon observed in both quantum mechanics and classical 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. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Michael Berry is the 587th most popular physicist (up from 654th in 2019), the 3,238th most popular biography from United Kingdom (up from 3,537th in 2019) and the 68th most popular British Physicist.

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Among PHYSICISTS

Among physicists, Michael Berry ranks 587 out of 851. Before him are Yulii Khariton, Antonio Pacinotti, Sergey Kapitsa, Georg Adolf Erman, Otto Lehmann, and Sumio Iijima. After him are Prasanta Chandra Mahalanobis, Kenneth Bainbridge, John Henry Schwarz, Artem Alikhanian, Frank J. Tipler, and John D. Barrow.

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Among people born in 1941, Michael Berry ranks 344. Before him are Ikuo Matsumoto, Pete Rose, Bo Svenson, Guido Reybrouck, Alexander Ragulin, and John Williams. After him are Alla Kushnir, John Henry Schwarz, Iván Menczel, Peter Ducke, Pola Raksa, and Richard Speck.

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In United Kingdom

Among people born in United Kingdom, Michael Berry ranks 3,239 out of 8,785. Before him are Richard Cobden (1804), Jimmy Bain (1947), Nobby Stiles (1942), James Legge (1815), Ida of Bernicia (450), and Ralph Erskine (1914). After him are Alan White (1949), Mark Sheppard (1964), Andrea Arnold (1961), Donald Sumpter (1943), John Hadley (1682), and May Whitty (1865).

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Among PHYSICISTS In United Kingdom

Among physicists born in United Kingdom, Michael Berry ranks 68. Before him are John Robison (1739), William Astbury (1898), Ernest Marsden (1889), Ralph H. Fowler (1889), John Lennard-Jones (1894), and Sergey Kapitsa (1928). After him are John D. Barrow (1952), William Edward Ayrton (1847), James David Forbes (1809), John Polkinghorne (1930), Bernard Lovell (1913), and C. V. Boys (1855).

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