Philip George Burke FRS[1] (18 October 1932—4 June 2019) was a British theoretical and computational physicist who developed the R-matrix method for studying electron collisions with atoms and molecules.

From 1959 to 1960, he worked at the Lawrence Berkeley Radiation Laboratory.

[1] The majority of Burke's research career was based at Queen's University Belfast, where he was a member of the Centre for Theoretical Atomic, Molecular and Optical Physics.

He was elected Fellow of the Royal Society in 1978 and was awarded a CBE in 1993.

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