Franz Mandl (physicist)
{{Short description|British theoretical physicist}}
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| birth_date = 1923
| birth_place = Vienna, Austria
| death_date = 2009 (aged 85)
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| nationality = British
| occupation = Theoretical physicist
| alma_mater = University of Oxford
| thesis_title = Limiting principles in statistical mechanics
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| thesis_year = 1949
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| workplaces = University of Manchester
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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.{{cite news |first=Geoffrey |last=Taylor |date=25 May 2009 |title=Obituary: Franz Mandl |work=The Guardian |url=https://www.theguardian.com/theguardian/2009/may/25/franz-mandl |access-date=27 May 2020}}
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. His books were considered influential to the graduate study of theoretical physics.{{cite journal |first=P D B |last=Collins |year=1985 |journal=Physics Bulletin |publisher=Institute of Physics |volume=36 |pages=391 |title=Book reviews: Quantum Field Theory |doi=10.1088/0031-9112/36/9/028}}{{cite journal |first=D |last=Bailin |year=2009 |journal=Contemp. Phys. |volume=51 |issue=2 |pages=182–183 |title=Book reviews: Modern Quantum Field Theory: A Concise Introduction, by T. Banks |doi=10.1080/00107510903073286|s2cid=122763918 }}
Personal life and death
Works
= Books =
- {{cite book |first1=Franz |last1=Mandl |title=Quantum Mechanics |year=1954 |publisher=Butterworths Scientific Publications |oclc=1088018527 |edition=1st}}{{cite journal|author=Salpeter, E. E.|author-link=Edwin E. Salpeter|title=Review of Quantum Mechanics by P. Mandl|date=25 March 1955|journal=Science|volume=121|issue=3143|pages=429–430|url=https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/science.121.3143.429.b|doi=10.1126/science.121.3143.429.b|url-access=subscription}} [https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/science.121.3143.430.a p. 430] {{cite book|title=2013 pbk edition|isbn=978-0-471-93155-3|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=lJaX2PsTxNoC |last1=Mandl |first1=Franz |date=6 June 2013 |publisher=John Wiley & Sons }}
- {{cite book |first1=Franz |last1=Mandl |title=Introduction to Quantum Field Theory |year=1959 |publisher=Interscience Publishers |oclc=422500484 |edition=1st}}
- {{cite book |first1=Franz |last1=Mandl |title=Statistical Physics |year=1971 |publisher=John Wiley & Sons |series=Manchester Physics Series |oclc=911305958 |edition=1st}} {{cite book|title=pbk reprint of 1988 2nd edition|isbn=978-0-471-91533-1|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=akETEAAAQBAJ |last1=Mandl |first1=Franz |date=8 January 1991 |publisher=John Wiley & Sons }}
- {{cite book |first1=Franz |last1=Mandl |first2=Graham |last2=Shaw |title=Quantum Field Theory |year=1984 |publisher=John Wiley & Sons |oclc=802732334 |edition=1st}} {{cite book|title=pbk 2nd edition|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=jTBzQfctvHAC|isbn=978-0-471-49684-7 | last1=Mandl | first1=Franz | last2=Shaw | first2=Graham | date=6 June 2013 | publisher=John Wiley & Sons }}
= Technical reports and lectures =
- {{cite book |first1=Franz |last1=Mandl |title=The ionization by electron impact of excited hydrogen atoms |year=1952 |publisher=Atomic Energy Research Establishment |location=Harwell, UK |oclc=28036431}}
- {{cite book |first1=Franz |last1=Mandl |title=Note on the phase-shifts for pion-nucleon scattering at 40 Mev |year=1956 |publisher=University of Rochester, Department of Physics |oclc=1029842342 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=iwUnBKEFKwYC}}
- {{cite book |first1=Franz |last1=Mandl |title=Symmetry properties of particles and fields |year=1960 |publisher=CERN |location=Geneva |series=CERN Lectures |oclc=11103193 |url=https://cds.cern.ch/record/278649/files/CM-P00075804.pdf}}
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Category:20th-century British physicists
Category:Austrian emigrants to Germany
Category:German emigrants to the United Kingdom
Category:Alumni of Lincoln College, Oxford
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