Jeffrey Ellis Mandula (born 1941 in

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) is a physicist well known for the

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from 1967. He got his Ph.D. 1966 under

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. Thereafter he was a professor of applied mathematics at

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and then of physics in the

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. Today, he is responsible for the funding of science in the

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References

A timeline of mathematics and theoretical physics 1967
at superstringtheory.com

at

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, Washington, DC 20515 21st-century American physicists Washington University in St. Louis physicists Harvard University alumni 1941 births Living people {{US-physicist-stub