Franz Mandl (physicist)

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. == 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. == Personal life and death ==

Mandl married Betty Clifford, a mathematician whom he met while studying at Oxford. He died in 2009 at the age of 85. == Works ==

Books • • • • Technical reports and lectures • • • == References ==