Franz Mandl (1923–2009) was a British theoretical physicist, known for his graduate-level textbooks.

Early life and education

Mandl was born in

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in 1923 into a Jewish family. They moved to

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in the 1920s, and after the

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, the family emigrated to England as refugees in 1936. Mandl received a scholarship to study at

Lincoln College, Oxford Lincoln College (formally, The College of the Blessed Mary and All Saints, Lincoln) is one of the constituent colleges of the University of Oxford, situated on Turl Street in central Oxford. Lincoln was founded in 1427 by Richard Fleming, the ...

where he received his undergraduate and doctorate degrees in physics.

Academic career

After receiving his doctorate, Mandl spent a few years in the US, before returning to the UK to become a reader of physics at the

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. He spent his career there collaborating in atomic research and writing textbooks. His books were considered influential to the graduate study of theoretical physics.

Personal life and death

Mandl married Betty Clifford, a mathematician whom he met while studying at Oxford. He died in 2009 at the age of 85.

Works

Books

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Technical reports and lectures

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References

1923 births 2009 deaths 20th-century British physicists Austrian emigrants to Germany German emigrants to the United Kingdom Alumni of Lincoln College, Oxford {{UK-physicist-stub