# Murray Batchelor > Mediated Wiki article. Canonical URL: https://mediated.wiki/source/Murray_Batchelor > Markdown URL: https://mediated.wiki/source/Murray_Batchelor.md > Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Murray_Batchelor > Source revision: 1321743479 > License: Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/) **Murray Thomas Batchelor** (born 27 August 1961) is an Australian mathematical physicist. He is best known for his work in [mathematical physics](/source/Mathematical_physics) and [theoretical physics](/source/Theoretical_physics). ## Academic career Batchelor was educated at Chatham Public School and [Chatham High School (Taree, New South Wales)](/source/Chatham_High_School_(Taree,_New_South_Wales)). He completed an Honours degree in [Theoretical Physics](/source/Theoretical_Physics) at the [University of New South Wales](/source/University_of_New_South_Wales) in 1983, graduating with 1st class honours and a University Medal. Batchelor completed a PhD in [Mathematics](/source/Mathematics) at the [Australian National University](/source/Australian_National_University) in 1987.[1] His first postdoctoral research position was at the [Lorentz Institute](/source/Lorentz_Institute) in [Leiden](/source/Leiden). After a time as a postdoctoral research fellow in mathematics at the [University of Melbourne](/source/University_of_Melbourne) he took up an [Australian Research Council](/source/Australian_Research_Council) QEII Fellowship at the [Australian National University](/source/Australian_National_University). He then was awarded two successive ARC Senior Research Fellowships, followed by an ARC Professorial Fellowship in 2003. Batchelor served as Head of the Department of Theoretical Physics from mid-2005 to March 2013. He has held visiting positions at a number of universities, including the [University of Oxford](/source/University_of_Oxford), the [University of Tokyo](/source/University_of_Tokyo) and [Institut Henri Poincaré](/source/Institut_Henri_Poincar%C3%A9). He held a Visiting Fellowship at [All Souls College](/source/All_Souls_College), Oxford during [Michaelmas Term](/source/Michaelmas_Term) 2013. During his career, Batchelor has published over 150 [peer-reviewed](/source/Peer-review) papers. He is a Fellow of the [Australian Mathematical Society](/source/Australian_Mathematical_Society), the [Australian Institute of Physics](/source/Australian_Institute_of_Physics) and the [Institute of Physics](/source/Institute_of_Physics) (UK). Batchelor was Editor-in-Chief of [*Journal of Physics A: Mathematical and Theoretical*](/source/Journal_of_Physics_A). Prior to this he served as Mathematical Physics Section Editor (2007–2008) and as a member of the Editorial Board (2005–2006). He is currently Topical Reviews Editor (2014-). In 2008 Batchelor was awarded an [Honorary Professorship](/source/Honorary_Professor) at [Chongqing University](/source/Chongqing_University), China. He took up a full-time position there in 2013 under the [Thousand Talents Plan](/source/Thousand_Talents_Plan). He is a General Council Member of the Asia-Pacific Center for Theoretical Physics. He holds a part-time position at the [Australian National University](/source/Australian_National_University) jointly between the Department of Theoretical Physics in the [Research School of Physics and Engineering](/source/Research_School_of_Physics_and_Engineering) and the Mathematical Sciences Institute. However, Batchelor has also shown an interest in ancient and modern [stromatolites](/source/Stromatolites), which has led him on a number of field trips to outback Australia, including to the [Pilbara Craton](/source/Pilbara_craton) and to [Hamelin Pool Marine Nature Reserve](/source/Hamelin_Pool_Marine_Nature_Reserve). In 2018 he led research into the stones used to build [Buckingham Palace](/source/Buckingham_Palace), determining that they were made from 200 million year old microbes.[2] ## Public roles Batchelor served on the Mathematical and Information Sciences and Technology Assessment Panel for the [Australian Research Quality Framework](/source/Australian_Research_Quality_Framework) (2007). ## Awards - University Medal, UNSW - 1983 - [Pawsey Medal](/source/Pawsey_Medal), [Australian Academy of Science](/source/Australian_Academy_of_Science) - 1997 - [Australian Mathematical Society Medal](/source/Australian_Mathematical_Society_Medal) - 1998[1] - ARC Professorial Fellowship - 2003 - Visiting Fellowship, [All Souls College](/source/All_Souls_College,_Oxford) - 2013 - 1000 Talent Professor, China - 2013 ## Selected bibliography - Batchelor, Murray T. (2007-01-01). "The Bethe ansatz after 75 years". *Physics Today*. **60** (1): 36–40. AIP Publishing. [Bibcode:2007PhT....60a..36B](https://ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/2007PhT....60a..36B). [doi:10.1063/1.2709557](https://doi.org/10.1063/1.2709557). [hdl:1885/95035](https://hdl.handle.net/1885/95035). [ISSN 0031-9228](https://www.worldcat.org/issn/0031-9228) - Batchelor, Murray T. (2008). "The art of sangaku". *Nature Physics*. **4** (9): 669. Springer Science and Business Media LLC. [Bibcode:2008NatPh...4..669B](https://ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/2008NatPh...4..669B). [doi:10.1038/nphys1069](https://doi.org/10.1038/nphys1069). [ISSN 1745-2473](https://www.worldcat.org/issn/1745-2473) - Guan, Xi-Wen; Batchelor, Murray T.; Lee, Chaohong (2013-11-27). "Fermi gases in one dimension: From Bethe ansatz to experiments". *Reviews of Modern Physics*. **85** (4): 1633–1691. American Physical Society (APS). [arXiv:1301.6446](https://arxiv.org/abs/1301.6446). [Bibcode:2013RvMP...85.1633G](https://ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/2013RvMP...85.1633G). [doi:10.1103/revmodphys.85.1633](https://doi.org/10.1103/revmodphys.85.1633). [ISSN 0034-6861](https://www.worldcat.org/issn/0034-6861) ## References 1. Macdonald, Emma (14 October 1998). "Batchelor lives for great discoveries in maths.". *The Canberra Times* 1. Knapton, Sarah (2018). ["Buckingham Palace is riddled with ancient fossils, scientists confirm"](https://www.telegraph.co.uk/science/2018/01/18/buckingham-palace-riddled-ancient-fossils-scientists-confirm/). *The Telegraph*. [ISSN 0307-1235](https://www.worldcat.org/issn/0307-1235). Retrieved 2018-09-22. ## External links - [Personal home page (ANU)](http://physics.anu.edu.au/people/profile.php?ID=316) - [Journal of Physics A: Mathematical and Theoretical](http://www.iop.org/EJ/journal/JPhysA) --- Adapted from the Wikipedia article [Murray Batchelor](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Murray_Batchelor) by Wikipedia contributors ([contributor history](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Murray_Batchelor?action=history)). 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