Franz Mandl (physicist)

from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Franz Mandl (* 1923 in Vienna ; † 2009 ) was a British theoretical physicist .

As a child, Mandl moved with his family to Berlin and came to England with his family as a Jewish refugee in 1936. His father was an electrical engineer. Mandl went to school in Sheffield and studied physics on a scholarship at Oxford University , where he received his doctorate. After post-doctoral stays in the USA, he was at the Atomic Energy Research Establishment in Harwell and later became a reader at the University of Manchester .

He is known from a number of physics textbooks. He worked with Arvid Herzenberg on atomic physics.

He was a talented cellist. He was married to the mathematician Betty Clifford and had one daughter.

Fonts

  • with Graham Shaw Quantum Field Theory , 2nd edition, Wiley 2010
  • with Graham Shaw Quantum field theory . Wiley 1993, ISBN 978-0-471-94186-6 .
  • Statistical Physics , 2nd Edition, Wiley 1988
  • Introduction to Quantum Field Theory , Interscience 1959
  • Quantum Mechanics , Wiley 1992

Web links