Franz Mandl (physicist)
British theoretical physicist
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Franz Mandl (1923–2009) was a British theoretical physicist, known for his graduate-level textbooks.
Franz Mandl | |
|---|---|
| Born | 1923 Vienna, Austria |
| Died | 2009 (aged 85) |
| Occupation | Theoretical physicist |
| Academic background | |
| Alma mater | University of Oxford |
| Thesis | Limiting principles in statistical mechanics (1949) |
| Academic work | |
| Institutions | University of Manchester |
Early life and education
Mandl was born in Vienna in 1923 into a Jewish family. They moved to Berlin in the 1920s, and after the rise of Nazi Germany, the family emigrated to England as refugees in 1936. Mandl received a scholarship to study at Lincoln College, Oxford where he received his undergraduate and doctorate degrees in physics.[1]
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 University of Manchester. He spent his career there collaborating in atomic research and writing textbooks.[1] His books were considered influential to the graduate study of theoretical physics.[2][3]
Personal life and death
Works
Books
- Mandl, Franz (1954). Quantum Mechanics (1st ed.). Butterworths Scientific Publications. OCLC 1088018527.[4] Mandl, Franz (6 June 2013). 2013 pbk edition. John Wiley & Sons. ISBN 978-0-471-93155-3.
- Mandl, Franz (1959). Introduction to Quantum Field Theory (1st ed.). Interscience Publishers. OCLC 422500484.
- Mandl, Franz (1971). Statistical Physics. Manchester Physics Series (1st ed.). John Wiley & Sons. OCLC 911305958. Mandl, Franz (8 January 1991). pbk reprint of 1988 2nd edition. John Wiley & Sons. ISBN 978-0-471-91533-1.
- Mandl, Franz; Shaw, Graham (1984). Quantum Field Theory (1st ed.). John Wiley & Sons. OCLC 802732334. Mandl, Franz; Shaw, Graham (6 June 2013). pbk 2nd edition. John Wiley & Sons. ISBN 978-0-471-49684-7.
Technical reports and lectures
- Mandl, Franz (1952). The ionization by electron impact of excited hydrogen atoms. Harwell, UK: Atomic Energy Research Establishment. OCLC 28036431.
- Mandl, Franz (1956). Note on the phase-shifts for pion-nucleon scattering at 40 Mev. University of Rochester, Department of Physics. OCLC 1029842342.
- Mandl, Franz (1960). Symmetry properties of particles and fields (PDF). CERN Lectures. Geneva: CERN. OCLC 11103193.
