Michael Berry (physicist)

Sir Michael Berry FRS FRSE FRSA HonFInstP
Berry in 2015
Born	Michael Victor Berry (1941-03-14) 14 March 1941 (age 83) Surrey, England, United Kingdom
Alma mater	University of Exeter (BSc) University of St. Andrews (PhD)
Known for	Berry phase Berry connection and curvature Berry–Robbins problem Berry–Tabor conjecture Weyl–Berry conjecture Quantum carpet Quantum chaos
Awards	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)
Scientific career
Institutions	University of Bristol
Thesis	The diffraction of light by ultrasound (1965)
Doctoral advisor	Robert Balson Dingle[1]
Doctoral students	Jenny Nelson Jonathan Keating
Website	michaelberryphysics.wordpress.com

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.

He 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.