Michael Christopher Payne FRS HonFInstP is a British theoretical physicist, working in the field of computational physics and theoretical condensed matter physics at the University of Cambridge.
[2] He was the 23rd most highly cited physical scientist in the UK between 1990 and 1999, and has published more than 250 papers which have had over 22,000 citations.
He then spent a year in John Joannopoulos's group in the Massachusetts Institute of Technology before returning to Pembroke College as a research fellow, and to the Theory of Condensed Matter (TCM) group in the Cavendish Laboratory where he had earlier completed his PhD.
[5] He was awarded the 1996 Maxwell Medal and Prize by the Institute of Physics and gave the 1998 Mott Lecture.
He was elected Fellow of the Royal Society in 2008[6] and awarded the Swan Medal and Prize by the Institute of Physics in 2014.