Michael Moore (physicist)
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| name = Michael Moore
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| birth_name = Michael Arthur Moore
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| birth_date = {{birth year and age |1943}}
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| fields = Theoretical physics
| workplaces = University of Manchester
University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign
University of Oxford
University of Sussex
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| education = Huddersfield New College
| alma_mater = University of Oxford
| thesis_title = Some problems in the theory of many-body systems
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| thesis_year = 1967
| doctoral_advisor = W. E. Parry
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| doctoral_students = Neil Burgess{{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 }}
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Michael Arthur Moore (born 1943) {{post-nominals|country=GBR|FRS}} 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.{{Who's Who | title=MOORE, Prof. Michael Arthur | id = U27958 | volume = 2015 | edition = online Oxford University Press}}{{Scopus id}}
Moore was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society (FRS) in 1989.{{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 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 }}}}
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.{{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}}
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.{{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}}
Moore has published many papers in statistical physics covering a wide range of topics. 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. 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. After some work on critical behaviour on surfaces, he joined the (then) new spin glass field, and in collaboration with Alan Bray{{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}} wrote a series of important papers both on replica symmetry breaking in these systems and on their properties as revealed by computer simulation. 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.
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