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Michael Berry

1941 - Today

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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. He is known for the Berry phase, a phenomenon observed in both quantum mechanics and classical optics, as well as Berry connection and curvature. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Michael Berry has received more than 32,848 page views. His biography is available in 21 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 19 in 2019). Michael Berry is the 654th most popular physicist (down from 498th in 2019), the 3,537th most popular biography from United Kingdom (down from 2,389th in 2019) and the 69th most popular British Physicist.

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    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among PHYSICISTS

Among physicists, Michael Berry ranks 654 out of 851. Before him are William Higinbotham, Boris Borisovich Golitsyn, Julius Wess, Hertha Sponer, Wilhelm Karl Ritter von Haidinger, and César Lattes. After him are Lee Smolin, Franz Josef Gerstner, Maurice Goldhaber, Orest Khvolson, Adriaan Fokker, and Hans Reissner.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1941, Michael Berry ranks 413. Before him are Vittorio Messori, Mary Alice, Dinko Dermendzhiev, Juliet Mills, Aleksandar Shalamanov, and Frans Verbeeck. After him are Karl Dall, Allal Benkassou, Lester Bowie, Zalman King, Howden Ganley, and Tim Hardin.

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In United Kingdom

Among people born in United Kingdom, Michael Berry ranks 3,537 out of 8,785. Before him are Thomas Fuller (1608), Edward Charles Howard (1774), Laura Theresa Alma-Tadema (1852), John Arbuthnot (1667), Hywel Dda (880), and Sheena Easton (1959). After him are Joe Alwyn (1991), Len Deighton (1929), Giuseppe Wilson (1945), Norman Hunter (1943), Alan Woods (1944), and James Prinsep (1799).

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Among PHYSICISTS In United Kingdom

Among physicists born in United Kingdom, Michael Berry ranks 69. Before him are John Robison (1739), John D. Barrow (1952), John Lennard-Jones (1894), Michael Green (1946), Francis Hauksbee (1660), and Frederick Guthrie (1833). After him are William Astbury (1898), C. V. Boys (1855), John Hopkinson (1849), John Polkinghorne (1930), Alfred Ewing (1855), and Raymond Gosling (1926).

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