Franz Mandl (physicist) explained

Franz Mandl
Birth Date:	1923
Birth Place:	Vienna, Austria
Death Date:	2009 (aged 85)
Nationality:	British
Occupation:	Theoretical physicist
Alma Mater:	University of Oxford
Thesis Title:	Limiting principles in statistical mechanics
Thesis Url:	https://www.worldcat.org/title/1064206858
Thesis Year:	1949
Workplaces:	University of Manchester

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.^[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

Mandl married Betty Clifford, a mathematician whom he met while studying at Oxford.^[1]

He died in 2009 at the age of 85.^[1]

Works

Books

• Book: Franz . Mandl . Quantum Mechanics . 1954 . Butterworths Scientific Publications . 1088018527 . 1st. ^[4] Book: 2013 pbk edition. 0-471-93155-1.
• Book: Franz . Mandl . Introduction to Quantum Field Theory . 1959 . Interscience Publishers . 422500484 . 1st.
• Book: Franz . Mandl . Statistical Physics . 1971 . . Manchester Physics Series . 911305958 . 1st. Book: pbk reprint of 1988 2nd edition. 978-0-471-91533-1.
• Book: Franz . Mandl . Graham . Shaw . Quantum Field Theory . 1984 . John Wiley & Sons . 802732334 . 1st. Book: pbk 2nd edition. 978-0-471-49684-7.

Technical reports and lectures

• Book: Franz . Mandl . The ionization by electron impact of excited hydrogen atoms . 1952 . . Harwell, UK . 28036431.
• Book: Franz . Mandl . Note on the phase-shifts for pion-nucleon scattering at 40 Mev . 1956 . University of Rochester, Department of Physics . 1029842342 .
• Book: Franz . Mandl . Symmetry properties of particles and fields . 1960 . . . CERN Lectures . 11103193 .

Notes and References

1. News: Geoffrey . Taylor . 25 May 2009 . Obituary: Franz Mandl . The Guardian . 27 May 2020.
2. P D B . Collins . 1985 . Physics Bulletin . . 36 . 391 . Book reviews: Quantum Field Theory . 10.1088/0031-9112/36/9/028.
3. D . Bailin . 2009 . . 51 . 2 . 182–183 . Book reviews: Modern Quantum Field Theory: A Concise Introduction, by T. Banks . 10.1080/00107510903073286. 122763918 .
4. Salpeter, E. E.. Edwin E. Salpeter. Review of Quantum Mechanics by P. Mandl. 25 March 1955. Science. 121. 3143. 429–430. 10.1126/science.121.3143.429.b. p. 430