- Leonard Mandel
Leonard Mandel (
May 9 ,1927 -February 9 2001 ) was the Lee DuBridge Professor Emeritus ofPhysics andOptics at theUniversity of Rochester when he died at the age of 73 at his home inPittsford, New York . He contributed immensely to theoretical and experimental optics. WithEmil Wolf he published the highly-regarded book "Optical Coherence and Quantum Optics."Mandel was born in
Berlin ,Germany , where his father had emigrated fromEastern Europe . He received a BSc degree inmathematics and physics in 1947 and a PhD degree in nuclear physics in 1951 from Birkbeck College,University of London , in theUnited Kingdom . He became a technical officer atImperial Chemical Industries Ltd inWelwyn , UK, in 1951. In 1955, he became a lecturer and, later, senior lecturer atImperial College London , University of London. He remained at Imperial until 1964, when he joined the University of Rochester as a professor of physicsAwards
1994 -
Young Medal and Prize , for distinguished research in the field of opticsExternal links
* [http://www.rochester.edu/news/show.php?id=778 Obituary in the University of Rochester News]
* [http://www.physicstoday.org/pt/vol-54/iss-8/p62.html Obituary in Physics Today Online]
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