| Michael Moore | |
| Birth Name: | Michael Arthur Moore |
| Fields: | Theoretical physics |
| Workplaces: | University of Manchester University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign University of Oxford University of Sussex |
| 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 |
| Doctoral Students: | Neil Burgess[1] |
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Michael Arthur Moore (born 1943) 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.
Moore was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society (FRS) in 1989.[2]
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.[3]
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.[4]
Moore has published many papers in statistical physics covering a wide range of topics.[2] 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.[2] 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.[2] After some work on critical behaviour on surfaces, he joined the (then) new spin glass field, and in collaboration with Alan Bray[5] wrote a series of important papers both on replica symmetry breaking in these systems and on their properties as revealed by computer simulation.[2] 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.[2]