Michael Moore (physicist)

Michael Moore

FRS

Born|

Michael Arthur Moore

1943 (age 80-81)
Education| Huddersfield New College
Alma mater| University of Oxford
Scientific career
Fields| Theoretical physics
Institutions| University of Manchester
University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign
University of Oxford
University of Sussex
Thesis| Some problems in the theory of many-body systems (1967)
Doctoral advisor| W. E. Parry
Doctoral students| Neil Burgess[1]
Website| www.research.manchester.ac.uk/portal/m.a.moore.html

Michael Arthur Moore (born 1943)[2] FRS[3] is a British physicist and Emeritus Professor of theoretical physics in the School of Physics and Astronomy at the University of Manchester where he has worked since 1976.[2][4]

Moore was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society (FRS) in 1989.[3][5]

## Early life and education

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Moore was born on 8 October 1943, the son of John Moore and Barbara Atkinson. He was educated at Huddersfield New College and Oriel College, Oxford. Whilst at Oxford he was awarded a Doctor of Philosophy degree in 1967 for research on Many-body theory supervised by W. E. Parry.[6]

## Research and career

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After his PhD he earned at the University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign. Between 1969 and 1971, he was a research fellow at Magdalen College, Oxford. Between 1971 and 1976, he was a lecturer in physics at the University of Sussex.[2][5]

Moore has published many papers in statistical physics covering a wide range of topics.[3] His early research was on the application of scaling theories to magnetic spin systems and superfluidity, and contained a series of useful results on critical indices.[3] He then applied renormalisation group ideas to polymer solutions and clarified the relationship of this approach to previous theories; a particularly interesting result concerned the retrieval of the Flory index under approximation schemes.[3] After some work on critical behaviour on surfaces, he joined the (then) new spin glass field, and in collaboration with Alan Bray[7] wrote a series of important papers both on replica symmetry breaking in these systems and on their properties as revealed by computer simulation.[3] In particular, he is associated with the droplet scaling theory of the spin glass state. In recent years, Michael has extended this work to structural glasses.[3]

## References

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1. ^ Burgess, Neil (1990). Neural networks, human memory and optimisation. manchester.ac.uk (PhD thesis). University of Manchester.
2. ^ a b c "MOORE, Prof. Michael Arthur". Who's Who. Vol. 2015 (online Oxford University Press ed.). A & C Black. (Subscription or UK public library membership required.)
3. ^ a b c d e f g Anon (1989). "Professor Michael Moore FRS". royalsociety.org. London: Royal Society. One or more of the preceding sentences incorporates text from the royalsociety.org website where:

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4. ^ Michael Moore publications indexed by the Scopus bibliographic database. (subscription required)
5. ^ a b "Prof Michael Moore FRS". University of Manchester. Retrieved 23 August 2017.
6. ^ Moore, Michael Arthur (1967). Some problems in the theory of many-body systems. ethos.bl.uk (DPhil thesis). University of Oxford. Archived from the original on 12 December 2019. Retrieved 27 August 2017.
7. ^ Bray, Alan; Moore, Michael (1987). "Chaotic nature of the spin-glass phase". Physical Review Letters. 58 (1): 57–60. Bibcode:1987PhRvL..58...57B. doi:10.1103/PhysRevLett.58.57. ISSN 1079-7114. PMID 10034289.

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