Franz Mandl

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

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.

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.

Personal life and death Mandl married Betty Clifford, a mathematician whom he met while studying at Oxford.

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