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searchaux" style="display:none">British theoretical physicist (born 1941)</div> <p class="mw-empty-elt"> </p> <style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1257001546">.mw-parser-output .infobox-subbox{padding:0;border:none;margin:-3px;width:auto;min-width:100%;font-size:100%;clear:none;float:none;background-color:transparent}.mw-parser-output .infobox-3cols-child{margin:auto}.mw-parser-output .infobox .navbar{font-size:100%}@media screen{html.skin-theme-clientpref-night .mw-parser-output .infobox-full-data:not(.notheme)>div:not(.notheme)[style]{background:#1f1f23!important;color:#f8f9fa}}@media screen and (prefers-color-scheme:dark){html.skin-theme-clientpref-os .mw-parser-output .infobox-full-data:not(.notheme) div:not(.notheme){background:#1f1f23!important;color:#f8f9fa}}@media(min-width:640px){body.skin--responsive .mw-parser-output .infobox-table{display:table!important}body.skin--responsive .mw-parser-output .infobox-table>caption{display:table-caption!important}body.skin--responsive .mw-parser-output .infobox-table>tbody{display:table-row-group}body.skin--responsive .mw-parser-output .infobox-table tr{display:table-row!important}body.skin--responsive .mw-parser-output .infobox-table th,body.skin--responsive .mw-parser-output .infobox-table td{padding-left:inherit;padding-right:inherit}}</style><table class="infobox biography vcard"><tbody><tr><th colspan="2" class="infobox-above" style="font-size:125%;"><div class="honorific-prefix" style="font-size: 77%; font-weight: normal;">Sir</div><div class="fn">Michael Berry</div><div class="honorific-suffix" style="font-size: 77%; font-weight: normal;"><span class="nobold noexcerpt nowraplinks" style="font-size:;"><span style="font-size: 100;"><a href="/wiki/Fellow_of_the_Royal_Society" title="Fellow of the Royal Society">FRS</a></span> <span style="font-size: 100;"><a href="/wiki/Fellow_of_the_Royal_Society_of_Edinburgh" class="mw-redirect" title="Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh">FRSE</a></span> <span style="font-size: 100;"><a href="/wiki/Fellow_of_the_Royal_Society_of_Arts" class="mw-redirect" title="Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts">FRSA</a></span> <span style="font-size: 100;"><a href="/wiki/Honorary_Fellows_of_the_Institute_of_Physics" class="mw-redirect" title="Honorary Fellows of the Institute of Physics">HonFInstP</a></span></span></div></th></tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="infobox-image"><span class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Frameless"><a href="/wiki/File:LorentzMedaille2014-cropped.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img alt="2015 Picture of Michael Berry holding the Lorentz Medal" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/17/LorentzMedaille2014-cropped.jpg/220px-LorentzMedaille2014-cropped.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="275" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/17/LorentzMedaille2014-cropped.jpg/330px-LorentzMedaille2014-cropped.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/17/LorentzMedaille2014-cropped.jpg/440px-LorentzMedaille2014-cropped.jpg 2x" data-file-width="709" data-file-height="886" /></a></span><div class="infobox-caption">Berry in 2015</div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Born</th><td class="infobox-data"><div style="display:inline" class="nickname">Michael Victor Berry</div><br /><span style="display:none"> (<span class="bday">1941-03-14</span>) </span>14 March 1941<span class="noprint ForceAgeToShow"> (age 83)</span><br /><div style="display:inline" class="birthplace"><span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/Surrey" title="Surrey">Surrey</a>, England, United Kingdom</span></div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Alma mater</th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/University_of_Exeter" title="University of Exeter">University of Exeter</a> (<a href="/wiki/BSc" class="mw-redirect" title="BSc">BSc</a>)<br /><a href="/wiki/University_of_St._Andrews" class="mw-redirect" title="University of St. Andrews">University of St. Andrews</a> (<a href="/wiki/PhD" class="mw-redirect" title="PhD">PhD</a>)</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Known for</th><td class="infobox-data"><style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1126788409">.mw-parser-output .plainlist ol,.mw-parser-output .plainlist ul{line-height:inherit;list-style:none;margin:0;padding:0}.mw-parser-output .plainlist ol li,.mw-parser-output .plainlist ul li{margin-bottom:0}</style><div class="plainlist"><ul><li><a href="/wiki/Geometric_phase" title="Geometric phase">Berry phase</a></li><li><a href="/wiki/Berry_connection_and_curvature" title="Berry connection and curvature">Berry connection and curvature</a></li><li><a href="/wiki/Berry%E2%80%93Robbins_problem" title="Berry–Robbins problem">Berry–Robbins problem</a></li><li><a href="/wiki/Quantum_chaos#Berry–Tabor_conjecture" title="Quantum chaos">Berry–Tabor conjecture</a></li><li><a href="/wiki/Hearing_the_shape_of_a_drum#The_Weyl–Berry_conjecture" title="Hearing the shape of a drum">Weyl–Berry conjecture</a></li><li><a href="/wiki/Quantum_carpet" title="Quantum carpet">Quantum carpet</a></li><li><a href="/wiki/Quantum_chaos" title="Quantum chaos">Quantum chaos</a></li></ul></div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Awards</th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/Maxwell_Medal_and_Prize" class="mw-redirect" title="Maxwell Medal and Prize">Maxwell Medal and Prize</a> (1978) <br /> <a href="/wiki/Fellow_of_the_Royal_Society" title="Fellow of the Royal Society">Fellow of the Royal Society</a> (1982) <br /> <a href="/wiki/Lilienfeld_Prize" title="Lilienfeld Prize">Lilienfeld Prize</a> (1990) <br /> <a href="/wiki/Royal_Medal" title="Royal Medal">Royal Medal</a> (1990) <br /> <a href="/wiki/Dirac_Medal_(IOP)" title="Dirac Medal (IOP)">IOP Dirac Medal</a> (1990) <br /> <a href="/wiki/Naylor_Prize_and_Lectureship" title="Naylor Prize and Lectureship">Naylor Prize and Lectureship</a> (1992) <br /> <a href="/wiki/Dirac_Medal_(ICTP)" title="Dirac Medal (ICTP)">ICTP Dirac Medal</a> (1996)<br /> <a href="/wiki/Knight_Bachelor" title="Knight Bachelor">Knight Bachelor</a> (1996) <br /> <a href="/wiki/Wolf_Prize" title="Wolf Prize">Wolf Prize</a> (1998) <br /> <a href="/wiki/Ig_Nobel_prize" class="mw-redirect" title="Ig Nobel prize">Ig Nobel prize</a> (2000) <br /> <a href="/wiki/Onsager_Medal" title="Onsager Medal">Onsager Medal</a> (2001) <br /> <a href="/wiki/P%C3%B3lya_Prize_(London_Mathematical_Society)" class="mw-redirect" title="Pólya Prize (London Mathematical Society)">Pólya Prize</a> (2005) <br /> <a href="/wiki/Lorentz_Medal" title="Lorentz Medal">Lorentz Medal</a> (2014)</td></tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="infobox-full-data"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1257001546"><b>Scientific career</b></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Institutions</th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/University_of_Bristol" title="University of Bristol">University of Bristol</a></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label"><a href="/wiki/Thesis" title="Thesis">Thesis</a></th><td class="infobox-data"><i><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://research-repository.st-andrews.ac.uk/handle/10023/22569">The diffraction of light by ultrasound</a></i> <span style="font-size:97%;">(1965)</span></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label"><a href="/wiki/Doctoral_advisor" title="Doctoral advisor">Doctoral advisor</a></th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/Robert_Balson_Dingle" title="Robert Balson Dingle">Robert Balson Dingle</a><sup id="cite_ref-mathgene_1-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-mathgene-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Doctoral students</th><td class="infobox-data"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1126788409"><div class="plainlist"><ul><li><a href="/wiki/Jenny_Nelson" title="Jenny Nelson">Jenny Nelson</a></li><li><a href="/wiki/Jonathan_Keating" title="Jonathan Keating">Jonathan Keating</a></li></ul></div></td></tr><tr style="display:none"><td colspan="2"> </td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Website</th><td class="infobox-data"><span class="url"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://michaelberryphysics.wordpress.com/">michaelberryphysics<wbr />.wordpress<wbr />.com</a></span></td></tr></tbody></table> <p><b>Sir Michael Victor Berry</b> (born 14 March 1941) is a British <a href="/wiki/Theoretical_physics" title="Theoretical physics">theoretical physicist</a>. He is the Melville Wills Professor of Physics (Emeritus) at the <a href="/wiki/University_of_Bristol" title="University of Bristol">University of Bristol</a>. </p><p>He is known for the <a href="/wiki/Geometric_phase" title="Geometric phase">Berry phase</a>, a phenomenon observed in both <a href="/wiki/Quantum_mechanics" title="Quantum mechanics">quantum mechanics</a> and classical <a href="/wiki/Optics" title="Optics">optics</a>, as well as <a href="/wiki/Berry_connection_and_curvature" title="Berry connection and curvature">Berry connection and curvature</a>. He specializes in semiclassical physics (asymptotic physics, <a href="/wiki/Quantum_chaos" title="Quantum chaos">quantum chaos</a>), applied to wave phenomena in <a href="/wiki/Quantum_mechanics" title="Quantum mechanics">quantum mechanics</a> and other areas such as <a href="/wiki/Optics" title="Optics">optics</a>. </p> <meta property="mw:PageProp/toc" /> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Early_life_and_education">Early life and education</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Michael_Berry_(physicist)&action=edit&section=1" title="Edit section: Early life and education"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Berry was brought up in a <a href="/wiki/List_of_British_Jewish_scientists" title="List of British Jewish scientists">Jewish family</a> and was the son of a London taxi driver and a dressmaker.<sup id="cite_ref-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Berry earned a <a href="/wiki/Bachelor_of_Science" title="Bachelor of Science">BSc</a> in <a href="/wiki/Physics" title="Physics">physics</a> from the <a href="/wiki/University_of_Exeter" title="University of Exeter">University of Exeter</a> where he met his first wife (a sociology student with whom he had his first child)<sup id="cite_ref-3" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-3"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>3<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> and a PhD from the <a href="/wiki/University_of_St._Andrews" class="mw-redirect" title="University of St. Andrews">University of St. Andrews</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-4" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-4"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>4<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> His thesis is titled <i>The diffraction of light by ultrasound</i>.<sup id="cite_ref-phd_5-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-phd-5"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>5<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Career_and_research">Career and research</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Michael_Berry_(physicist)&action=edit&section=2" title="Edit section: Career and research"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>He has spent his whole career at the University of Bristol. He was a <a href="/wiki/Research_fellow" title="Research fellow">research fellow</a>, 1965–67; lecturer, 1967–74; <a href="/wiki/Reader_(academic_rank)" title="Reader (academic rank)">reader</a>, 1974–78; Professor of Physics, 1978–88; and Royal Society Research Professor 1988–2006. Since 2006, he has been Melville Wills Professor of Physics (Emeritus) at Bristol University.<sup id="cite_ref-6" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-6"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>6<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Awards_and_honours">Awards and honours</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Michael_Berry_(physicist)&action=edit&section=3" title="Edit section: Awards and honours"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>He was elected a <a href="/wiki/List_of_Fellows_of_the_Royal_Society_elected_in_1982" class="mw-redirect" title="List of Fellows of the Royal Society elected in 1982">Fellow of the Royal Society (FRS) in 1982</a><sup id="cite_ref-7" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-7"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>7<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> and knighted in 1996.<sup id="cite_ref-8" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-8"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>8<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> From 2006 to 2012 he was editor of<i><a href="/wiki/Proceedings_of_the_Royal_Society" title="Proceedings of the Royal Society"> Proceedings of the Royal Society A</a></i>. </p><p>Berry has been given the following prizes and awards:<sup id="cite_ref-9" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-9"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>9<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/James_Clerk_Maxwell_Medal_and_Prize" title="James Clerk Maxwell Medal and Prize">Maxwell Medal and Prize</a>, <a href="/wiki/Institute_of_Physics" title="Institute of Physics">Institute of Physics</a>, 1978</li> <li>Elected <a href="/wiki/Fellow_of_the_Royal_Society" title="Fellow of the Royal Society">Fellow of the Royal Society</a> of London, 1982</li> <li>Elected <a href="/wiki/Fellow_of_the_Royal_Society_of_Arts" class="mw-redirect" title="Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts">Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts</a>, 1983</li> <li>Elected Fellow of the <a href="/wiki/Royal_Institution" title="Royal Institution">Royal Institution</a>, 1983</li> <li>Elected Member of the <a href="/wiki/Royal_Society_of_Sciences_in_Uppsala" title="Royal Society of Sciences in Uppsala">Royal Society of Sciences in Uppsala</a>, Sweden, 1986</li> <li>Bakerian Lecturer, <a href="/wiki/Royal_Society" title="Royal Society">Royal Society</a>, 1987</li> <li>Elected member of the <a href="/wiki/European_Academy_of_Sciences_and_Arts" title="European Academy of Sciences and Arts">European Academy of Sciences and Arts</a>, 1989</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Dirac_Medal_(IOP)" title="Dirac Medal (IOP)">Dirac Medal</a>, Institute of Physics, 1990</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Lilienfeld_Prize" title="Lilienfeld Prize">Lilienfeld Prize</a>, <a href="/wiki/American_Physical_Society" title="American Physical Society">American Physical Society</a>, 1990</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Royal_Medal" title="Royal Medal">Royal Medal</a>, Royal Society, 1990</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Naylor_Prize" class="mw-redirect" title="Naylor Prize">Naylor Prize</a> and Lectureship in Applied Mathematics, <a href="/wiki/London_Mathematical_Society" title="London Mathematical Society">London Mathematical Society</a>, 1992</li> <li>Foreign Member: US <a href="/wiki/National_Academy_of_Sciences" title="National Academy of Sciences">National Academy of Sciences</a>, 1995</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Dirac_Medal_(ICTP)" title="Dirac Medal (ICTP)">Dirac Medal</a>, <a href="/wiki/International_Centre_for_Theoretical_Physics" title="International Centre for Theoretical Physics">International Centre for Theoretical Physics</a>, 1996</li> <li>Awarded honorary Doctor of Science degree in <a href="/wiki/Trinity_College_Dublin" title="Trinity College Dublin">Trinity College Dublin</a>, 1996<sup id="cite_ref-10" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-10"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>10<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li> <li><a href="/w/index.php?title=Kapitsa_Medal&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Kapitsa Medal (page does not exist)">Kapitsa Medal</a>, <a href="/wiki/Russian_Academy_of_Sciences" title="Russian Academy of Sciences">Russian Academy of Sciences</a>, 1997</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Wolf_Prize" title="Wolf Prize">Wolf Prize</a> for Physics, <a href="/wiki/Wolf_Foundation" title="Wolf Foundation">Wolf Foundation</a>, <a href="/wiki/Israel" title="Israel">Israel</a>, 1998, jointly with <a href="/wiki/Yakir_Aharonov" title="Yakir Aharonov">Yakir Aharonov</a></li> <li>Honorary Fellow of the Institute of Physics, 1999</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Forder_Lectureship" title="Forder Lectureship">Forder Lectureship</a>, <a href="/wiki/London_Mathematical_Society" title="London Mathematical Society">London Mathematical Society</a>, 1999<sup id="cite_ref-11" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-11"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>11<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li> <li>Foreign Member: <a href="/wiki/Royal_Netherlands_Academy_of_Arts_and_Sciences" title="Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences">Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences</a>, 2000</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Ig_Nobel_Prize" title="Ig Nobel Prize">Ig Nobel Prize</a> for Physics, <a href="/wiki/List_of_Ig_Nobel_Prize_winners#2000" title="List of Ig Nobel Prize winners">2000</a> (shared with <a href="/wiki/Andre_Geim" title="Andre Geim">Andre Geim</a> for "The Physics of Flying Frogs"). By 2022 his and Geim's Ig Nobel for the magnetic levitation of a frog was reportedly part of the inspiration for China's <a href="/wiki/Gravitation_of_the_Moon#Simulating_lunar_gravity" title="Gravitation of the Moon">lunar gravity research</a> facility.<sup id="cite_ref-Futurism01a_12-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Futurism01a-12"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>12<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-scmp2022-01-12a_13-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-scmp2022-01-12a-13"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>13<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Onsager_Medal" title="Onsager Medal">Onsager Medal</a>, <a href="/wiki/Norwegian_University_of_Science_and_Technology" title="Norwegian University of Science and Technology">Norwegian University of Science and Technology</a>, 2001</li> <li>Gibbs Lecturer, <a href="/wiki/American_Mathematical_Society" title="American Mathematical Society">American Mathematical Society</a>, 2002<sup id="cite_ref-14" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-14"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>14<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li> <li>1st and 3rd prizes, Visions of Science, <a href="/wiki/Novartis" title="Novartis">Novartis</a>/<a href="/wiki/Daily_Telegraph" class="mw-redirect" title="Daily Telegraph">Daily Telegraph</a>, 2002</li> <li>Elected to <a href="/wiki/Royal_Society_of_Edinburgh" title="Royal Society of Edinburgh">Royal Society of Edinburgh</a>, 2005</li> <li><a href="/wiki/P%C3%B3lya_Prize_(London_Mathematical_Society)" class="mw-redirect" title="Pólya Prize (London Mathematical Society)">Pólya Prize</a>, <a href="/wiki/London_Mathematical_Society" title="London Mathematical Society">London Mathematical Society</a>, 2005</li> <li>Doctor of Science, <a href="/wiki/Honorary_degree" title="Honorary degree">honoris causa</a>, <a href="/wiki/University_of_Glasgow" title="University of Glasgow">University of Glasgow</a>, 2007</li> <li>Selected <a href="/wiki/List_of_Clarivate_Citation_laureates_in_Physics" title="List of Clarivate Citation laureates in Physics">Clarivate Citation laureate in Physics</a> in 2009, jointly with Aharonov.<sup id="cite_ref-15" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-15"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>15<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li> <li>Doctor of Science, <a href="/wiki/Honorary_degree" title="Honorary degree">honoris causa</a>, <a href="/wiki/Russian-Armenian_(Slavonic)_University" class="mw-redirect" title="Russian-Armenian (Slavonic) University">Russian-Armenian (Slavonic) University</a> in <a href="/wiki/Yerevan" title="Yerevan">Yerevan</a>, 2012</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Lorentz_Medal" title="Lorentz Medal">Lorentz Medal</a>, 2014<sup id="cite_ref-16" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-16"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>16<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Lise_Meitner_Distinguished_Lecture" title="Lise Meitner Distinguished Lecture">Lise Meitner Distinguished Lecture</a>, 2019</li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="See_also">See also</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Michael_Berry_(physicist)&action=edit&section=4" title="Edit section: See also"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/S._Pancharatnam" title="S. Pancharatnam">S. Pancharatnam</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Gordon_decomposition" title="Gordon decomposition">Gordon decomposition</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Hilbert%E2%80%93P%C3%B3lya_conjecture" title="Hilbert–Pólya conjecture">Hilbert–Pólya conjecture</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Riemann_hypothesis" title="Riemann hypothesis">Riemann hypothesis</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Spin-stabilized_magnetic_levitation" title="Spin-stabilized magnetic levitation">Spin-stabilized magnetic levitation</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Superoscillation" title="Superoscillation">Superoscillation</a></li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="References">References</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Michael_Berry_(physicist)&action=edit&section=5" title="Edit section: References"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1239543626">.mw-parser-output .reflist{margin-bottom:0.5em;list-style-type:decimal}@media screen{.mw-parser-output .reflist{font-size:90%}}.mw-parser-output .reflist .references{font-size:100%;margin-bottom:0;list-style-type:inherit}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns-2{column-width:30em}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns-3{column-width:25em}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns{margin-top:0.3em}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns ol{margin-top:0}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns li{page-break-inside:avoid;break-inside:avoid-column}.mw-parser-output .reflist-upper-alpha{list-style-type:upper-alpha}.mw-parser-output .reflist-upper-roman{list-style-type:upper-roman}.mw-parser-output .reflist-lower-alpha{list-style-type:lower-alpha}.mw-parser-output .reflist-lower-greek{list-style-type:lower-greek}.mw-parser-output .reflist-lower-roman{list-style-type:lower-roman}</style><div class="reflist reflist-columns references-column-width" style="column-width: 30em;"> <ol class="references"> <li id="cite_note-mathgene-1"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-mathgene_1-0">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://mathgenealogy.org/id.php?id=100096">Michael Berry</a> at the <a href="/wiki/Mathematics_Genealogy_Project" title="Mathematics Genealogy Project">Mathematics Genealogy Project</a></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-2"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-2">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1238218222">.mw-parser-output cite.citation{font-style:inherit;word-wrap:break-word}.mw-parser-output .citation q{quotes:"\"""\"""'""'"}.mw-parser-output .citation:target{background-color:rgba(0,127,255,0.133)}.mw-parser-output .id-lock-free.id-lock-free a{background:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/6/65/Lock-green.svg")right 0.1em center/9px no-repeat}.mw-parser-output .id-lock-limited.id-lock-limited a,.mw-parser-output .id-lock-registration.id-lock-registration a{background:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/d/d6/Lock-gray-alt-2.svg")right 0.1em center/9px no-repeat}.mw-parser-output .id-lock-subscription.id-lock-subscription a{background:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/a/aa/Lock-red-alt-2.svg")right 0.1em center/9px no-repeat}.mw-parser-output .cs1-ws-icon a{background:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/4/4c/Wikisource-logo.svg")right 0.1em center/12px no-repeat}body:not(.skin-timeless):not(.skin-minerva) .mw-parser-output .id-lock-free a,body:not(.skin-timeless):not(.skin-minerva) .mw-parser-output .id-lock-limited a,body:not(.skin-timeless):not(.skin-minerva) .mw-parser-output .id-lock-registration a,body:not(.skin-timeless):not(.skin-minerva) .mw-parser-output .id-lock-subscription a,body:not(.skin-timeless):not(.skin-minerva) .mw-parser-output .cs1-ws-icon a{background-size:contain;padding:0 1em 0 0}.mw-parser-output .cs1-code{color:inherit;background:inherit;border:none;padding:inherit}.mw-parser-output .cs1-hidden-error{display:none;color:var(--color-error,#d33)}.mw-parser-output .cs1-visible-error{color:var(--color-error,#d33)}.mw-parser-output .cs1-maint{display:none;color:#085;margin-left:0.3em}.mw-parser-output .cs1-kern-left{padding-left:0.2em}.mw-parser-output .cs1-kern-right{padding-right:0.2em}.mw-parser-output .citation .mw-selflink{font-weight:inherit}@media screen{.mw-parser-output .cs1-format{font-size:95%}html.skin-theme-clientpref-night .mw-parser-output .cs1-maint{color:#18911f}}@media screen and (prefers-color-scheme:dark){html.skin-theme-clientpref-os .mw-parser-output .cs1-maint{color:#18911f}}</style><cite id="CITEREFRubinsteinJollesRubinstein2011" class="citation book cs1"><a href="/wiki/William_Rubinstein" title="William Rubinstein">Rubinstein, William D.</a>; Jolles, Michael; <a href="/wiki/Hilary_L._Rubinstein" title="Hilary L. 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Wilson">Kenneth G. Wilson</a> (1980)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Freeman_Dyson" title="Freeman Dyson">Freeman Dyson</a> / <a href="/wiki/Gerard_%27t_Hooft" title="Gerard 't Hooft">Gerardus 't Hooft</a> / <a href="/wiki/Victor_Weisskopf" title="Victor Weisskopf">Victor Weisskopf</a> (1981)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Leon_M._Lederman" title="Leon M. Lederman">Leon M. Lederman</a> / <a href="/wiki/Martin_Lewis_Perl" title="Martin Lewis Perl">Martin Lewis Perl</a> (1982)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Erwin_Hahn" title="Erwin Hahn">Erwin Hahn</a> / <a href="/wiki/Peter_Hirsch" title="Peter Hirsch">Peter Hirsch</a> / <a href="/wiki/Theodore_Maiman" title="Theodore Maiman">Theodore Maiman</a> (1983–84)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Conyers_Herring" title="Conyers Herring">Conyers Herring</a> / <a href="/wiki/Philippe_Nozi%C3%A8res" title="Philippe Nozières">Philippe Nozières</a> (1984–85)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Mitchell_Feigenbaum" title="Mitchell Feigenbaum">Mitchell Feigenbaum</a> / <a href="/wiki/Albert_J._Libchaber" title="Albert J. Libchaber">Albert J. Libchaber</a> (1986)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Herbert_Friedman" title="Herbert Friedman">Herbert Friedman</a> / <a href="/wiki/Bruno_Rossi" title="Bruno Rossi">Bruno Rossi</a> / <a href="/wiki/Riccardo_Giacconi" title="Riccardo Giacconi">Riccardo Giacconi</a> (1987)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Roger_Penrose" title="Roger Penrose">Roger Penrose</a> / <a href="/wiki/Stephen_Hawking" title="Stephen Hawking">Stephen Hawking</a> (1988)</li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="background:#d3d3d3;;width:1%">1990s</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Pierre-Gilles_de_Gennes" title="Pierre-Gilles de Gennes">Pierre-Gilles de Gennes</a> / <a href="/wiki/David_J._Thouless" title="David J. Thouless">David J. Thouless</a> (1990)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Maurice_Goldhaber" title="Maurice Goldhaber">Maurice Goldhaber</a> / <a href="/wiki/Valentine_Telegdi" title="Valentine Telegdi">Valentine Telegdi</a> (1991)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Joseph_Hooton_Taylor_Jr." title="Joseph Hooton Taylor Jr.">Joseph H. Taylor Jr.</a> (1992)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Benoit_Mandelbrot" title="Benoit Mandelbrot">Benoît Mandelbrot</a> (1993)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Vitaly_Ginzburg" title="Vitaly Ginzburg">Vitaly Ginzburg</a> / <a href="/wiki/Yoichiro_Nambu" title="Yoichiro Nambu">Yoichiro Nambu</a> (1994–95)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/John_Archibald_Wheeler" title="John Archibald Wheeler">John Wheeler</a> (1996–97)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Yakir_Aharonov" title="Yakir Aharonov">Yakir Aharonov</a> / <a class="mw-selflink selflink">Michael Berry</a> (1998)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Dan_Shechtman" title="Dan Shechtman">Dan Shechtman</a> (1999)</li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="background:#d3d3d3;;width:1%">2000s</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Raymond_Davis_Jr." title="Raymond Davis Jr.">Raymond Davis Jr.</a> / <a href="/wiki/Masatoshi_Koshiba" title="Masatoshi Koshiba">Masatoshi Koshiba</a> (2000)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Bertrand_Halperin" title="Bertrand Halperin">Bertrand Halperin</a> / <a href="/wiki/Anthony_James_Leggett" title="Anthony James Leggett">Anthony Leggett</a> (2002–03)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Robert_Brout" title="Robert Brout">Robert Brout</a> / <a href="/wiki/Fran%C3%A7ois_Englert" title="François Englert">François Englert</a> / <a href="/wiki/Peter_Higgs" title="Peter Higgs">Peter Higgs</a> (2004)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Daniel_Kleppner" title="Daniel Kleppner">Daniel Kleppner</a> (2005)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Albert_Fert" title="Albert Fert">Albert Fert</a> / <a href="/wiki/Peter_Gr%C3%BCnberg" title="Peter Grünberg">Peter Grünberg</a> (2006–07)</li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="background:#d3d3d3;;width:1%">2010s</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/John_Clauser" title="John Clauser">John F. 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href="/wiki/Liouville%27s_theorem_(Hamiltonian)" title="Liouville's theorem (Hamiltonian)">Liouville's theorem</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Krylov%E2%80%93Bogolyubov_theorem" title="Krylov–Bogolyubov theorem">Krylov–Bogolyubov theorem</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Poincar%C3%A9%E2%80%93Bendixson_theorem" title="Poincaré–Bendixson theorem">Poincaré–Bendixson theorem</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Poincar%C3%A9_recurrence_theorem" title="Poincaré recurrence theorem">Poincaré recurrence theorem</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Stable_manifold_theorem" title="Stable manifold theorem">Stable manifold theorem</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Takens%27s_theorem" title="Takens's theorem">Takens's theorem</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr></tbody></table><div></div></td><td class="noviewer navbox-image" rowspan="6" style="width:1px;padding:0 0 0 2px"><div><span typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:C%C3%B4ne_textileII.png" class="mw-file-description" title="Conus textile shell"><img alt="Conus textile shell" 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<li><a href="/wiki/Stability_theory" title="Stability theory">Stability theory</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Synchronization_of_chaos" title="Synchronization of chaos">Synchronization of chaos</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">Chaotic<br />maps (<a href="/wiki/List_of_chaotic_maps" title="List of chaotic maps">list</a>)</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd hlist" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"></div><table class="nowraplinks navbox-subgroup" style="border-spacing:0"><tbody><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%"><div style="margin: 10px 0px">Discrete</div></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Arnold%27s_cat_map" title="Arnold's cat map">Arnold's cat map</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Baker%27s_map" title="Baker's map">Baker's map</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Complex_quadratic_polynomial" title="Complex quadratic polynomial">Complex quadratic map</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Coupled_map_lattice" title="Coupled map lattice">Coupled map lattice</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Duffing_map" title="Duffing map">Duffing map</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Dyadic_transformation" title="Dyadic transformation">Dyadic transformation</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Dynamical_billiards" title="Dynamical billiards">Dynamical billiards</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Outer_billiards" title="Outer billiards">outer</a></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Exponential_map_(discrete_dynamical_systems)" title="Exponential map (discrete dynamical systems)">Exponential map</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Gauss_iterated_map" title="Gauss iterated map">Gauss map</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Gingerbreadman_map" title="Gingerbreadman map">Gingerbreadman map</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/H%C3%A9non_map" title="Hénon map">Hénon map</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Horseshoe_map" title="Horseshoe map">Horseshoe map</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Ikeda_map" title="Ikeda map">Ikeda map</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Interval_exchange_transformation" title="Interval exchange transformation">Interval exchange map</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Irrational_rotation" title="Irrational rotation">Irrational rotation</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Kaplan%E2%80%93Yorke_map" title="Kaplan–Yorke map">Kaplan–Yorke map</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Langton%27s_ant" title="Langton's ant">Langton's ant</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Logistic_map" title="Logistic map">Logistic map</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Standard_map" title="Standard map">Standard map</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Tent_map" title="Tent map">Tent map</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Tinkerbell_map" title="Tinkerbell map">Tinkerbell map</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Zaslavskii_map" title="Zaslavskii map">Zaslavskii map</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%"><div style="margin: 10px 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problem</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Van_der_Pol_oscillator" title="Van der Pol oscillator">Van der Pol oscillator</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr></tbody></table><div></div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">Physical<br />systems</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd hlist" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Chua%27s_circuit" title="Chua's circuit">Chua's circuit</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Rayleigh%E2%80%93B%C3%A9nard_convection" title="Rayleigh–Bénard convection">Convection</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Double_pendulum" title="Double pendulum">Double pendulum</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Elastic_pendulum" title="Elastic pendulum">Elastic pendulum</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Fermi%E2%80%93Pasta%E2%80%93Ulam%E2%80%93Tsingou_problem" title="Fermi–Pasta–Ulam–Tsingou problem">FPUT problem</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/H%C3%A9non%E2%80%93Heiles_system" title="Hénon–Heiles system">Hénon–Heiles 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Chua">Leon O. Chua</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Mitchell_Feigenbaum" title="Mitchell Feigenbaum">Mitchell Feigenbaum</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Peter_Grassberger" title="Peter Grassberger">Peter Grassberger</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Celso_Grebogi" title="Celso Grebogi">Celso Grebogi</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Martin_Gutzwiller" title="Martin Gutzwiller">Martin Gutzwiller</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Brosl_Hasslacher" title="Brosl Hasslacher">Brosl Hasslacher</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Michel_H%C3%A9non" title="Michel Hénon">Michel Hénon</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Svetlana_Jitomirskaya" title="Svetlana Jitomirskaya">Svetlana Jitomirskaya</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Bryna_Kra" title="Bryna Kra">Bryna Kra</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Edward_Norton_Lorenz" title="Edward Norton Lorenz">Edward Norton Lorenz</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Aleksandr_Lyapunov" title="Aleksandr Lyapunov">Aleksandr Lyapunov</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Benoit_Mandelbrot" title="Benoit Mandelbrot">Benoît Mandelbrot</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Hee_Oh" title="Hee Oh">Hee Oh</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Edward_Ott" title="Edward Ott">Edward Ott</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Henri_Poincar%C3%A9" title="Henri Poincaré">Henri Poincaré</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Itamar_Procaccia" title="Itamar Procaccia">Itamar Procaccia</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Mary_Rees" title="Mary Rees">Mary Rees</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Otto_R%C3%B6ssler" title="Otto Rössler">Otto Rössler</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/David_Ruelle" title="David Ruelle">David Ruelle</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Caroline_Series" title="Caroline Series">Caroline Series</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Yakov_Sinai" title="Yakov Sinai">Yakov Sinai</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Oleksandr_Mykolayovych_Sharkovsky" class="mw-redirect" title="Oleksandr Mykolayovych Sharkovsky">Oleksandr Mykolayovych Sharkovsky</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Nina_Snaith" title="Nina Snaith">Nina Snaith</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Floris_Takens" title="Floris Takens">Floris Takens</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Audrey_Terras" title="Audrey Terras">Audrey Terras</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Mary_Tsingou" title="Mary Tsingou">Mary Tsingou</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Marcelo_Viana" title="Marcelo Viana">Marcelo Viana</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Amie_Wilkinson" title="Amie Wilkinson">Amie Wilkinson</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/James_A._Yorke" title="James A. 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