Michael Moore (physicist)

{{Use dmy dates|date=July 2016}} {{Use British English|date=July 2016}} {{short description|British scientist and academic}} {{Infobox scientist | name = Michael Moore | honorific_suffix = {{post-nominals|country=GBR|FRS}} | birth_name = Michael Arthur Moore | image =  | image_size = | image_upright = | alt = | caption = | birth_date = {{birth year and age |1943}} | birth_place = | fields = [[Theoretical physics]] | workplaces = [[University of Manchester]]<br>[[University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign]]<br>[[University of Oxford]]<br>[[University of Sussex]] | patrons = | education = [[Huddersfield New College]] | alma_mater = [[University of Oxford]] | thesis_title = Some problems in the theory of many-body systems | thesis_url = http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.710996 | thesis_year = 1967 | doctoral_advisor = W. E. Parry | academic_advisors = | doctoral_students = [[Neil Burgess (neuroscientist)|Neil Burgess]]<ref name=phd>{{cite thesis |degree=PhD |first=Neil|last=Burgess |title=Neural networks, human memory and optimisation |publisher=[[University of Manchester]] |date=1990 |url=http://www.librarysearch.manchester.ac.uk/MU_VU1:BLENDED:44MAN_ALMA_DS21212087900001631|website=manchester.ac.uk }}</ref> | notable_students = | known_for = | influences = | influenced = | awards = | author_abbrev_bot = | author_abbrev_zoo = | spouse =  | partner =  | children = | signature =  | signature_alt = | website = {{URL|https://www.research.manchester.ac.uk/portal/m.a.moore.html}} | footnotes = }}

'''Michael Arthur Moore''' (born 1943)<ref name=whoswho/> {{post-nominals|country=GBR|FRS}}<ref name=frs/> is a British physicist and [[Emeritus]] [[Professor]] of [[theoretical physics]] in the [[School of Physics and Astronomy, University of Manchester|School of Physics and Astronomy]] at the [[University of Manchester]] where he has worked since 1976.<ref name=whoswho>{{Who's Who | title=MOORE, Prof. Michael Arthur | id = U27958 | volume = 2015 | edition = online [[Oxford University Press]]}}</ref><ref name=scopus>{{Scopus id}}</ref>

Moore was elected a [[Fellow of the Royal Society]] (FRS) in 1989.<ref name=frs>{{cite web|url=https://royalsociety.org/people/michael-moore-11972/|website=royalsociety.org|location=London|author=Anon|year=1989|title=Professor Michael Moore FRS|publisher=[[Royal Society]]}} One or more of the preceding sentences incorporates text from the royalsociety.org website where: {{quote|“All text published under the heading 'Biography' on Fellow profile pages is available under [[Creative Commons license|Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License]].” --{{cite web |url=https://royalsociety.org/about-us/terms-conditions-policies/ |title=Royal Society Terms, conditions and policies |access-date=2016-03-09 |url-status=bot: unknown |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20161111170346/https://royalsociety.org/about-us/terms-conditions-policies/ |archive-date=11 November 2016 |df=dmy-all }}}}</ref><ref name=resbio/>

==Early life and education== 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.<ref>{{cite thesis|degree=DPhil|publisher=University of Oxford|title=Some problems in the theory of many-body systems|first=Michael Arthur|last=Moore|date=1967|url=http://solo.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/OXVU1:LSCOP_OX:oxfaleph020528098|website=ethos.bl.uk|access-date=27 August 2017|archive-date=12 December 2019|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20191212213800/http://solo.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/primo-explore/fulldisplay?vid=SOLO&docid=oxfaleph020528098&context=L&search_scope=LSCOP_OX|url-status=dead}}</ref>

==Research and career== 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]].<ref name=whoswho/><ref name=resbio>{{cite web |url=https://www.research.manchester.ac.uk/portal/m.a.moore.html |title=Prof Michael Moore FRS |publisher=University of Manchester |access-date=23 August 2017}}</ref>

Moore has published many papers in statistical physics covering a wide range of topics.<ref name=frs/> 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.<ref name=frs/> 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.<ref name=frs/> After some work on critical behaviour on surfaces, he joined the (then) new [[spin glass]] field, and in collaboration with Alan Bray<ref>{{Cite journal|last=Bray|first=Alan|last2=Moore|first2=Michael|year=1987|title=Chaotic nature of the spin-glass phase|journal=[[Physical Review Letters]]|volume=58|issue=1|pages=57–60|doi=10.1103/PhysRevLett.58.57|issn=1079-7114|pmid=10034289|bibcode=1987PhRvL..58...57B}} {{closed access}}</ref> wrote a series of important papers both on replica symmetry breaking in these systems and on their properties as revealed by computer simulation.<ref name=frs/> 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.<ref name=frs/>

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