Biography:Franz Mandl

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Franz Mandl


Born 1923
Died 2009


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


Author: Harold Foppele