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| Franz Mandl
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| Born | 1923 |
| Died | 2009
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| Known for | Graduate-level theoretical physics textbooks |
Franz Mandl (1923 - 2009) was a British theoretical physicist and textbook author.[1]
Career and work
Mandl was born in Vienna and came to Britain as a refugee from Nazi Germany. He studied at Oxford and later became a reader in physics at the University of Manchester.[1][2]
He is remembered especially for graduate-level textbooks that were used by generations of physics students.[2]
In the QFT further-reading list he appears as coauthor, with Graham Shaw, of Quantum Field Theory, a compact graduate text on relativistic fields and particle physics.[3]
Selected works
- Statistical Physics.
- Quantum Mechanics.
- Quantum Field Theory (with Graham Shaw).
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 "Franz Mandl (physicist)". https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Franz_Mandl_(physicist).
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 "Franz Mandl". https://www.theguardian.com/theguardian/2009/may/25/franz-mandl.
- ↑ "Quantum Field Theory". https://www.cambridge.org/highereducation/books/quantum-field-theory/7BBD6627FB00DDAF54275CF893AFC9FB.
External links
Author: Harold Foppele