Alfred K. Mann


Alfred K. Mann was a particle physicist, known for his role in the discovery of fundamental properties of neutrinos.

Education and career

Born in New York, Mann earned all three of his physics degrees from the University of Virginia: BA in 1942, MS in 1946, and PhD in 1947. During WW II, he participated in the Manhattan Project.
After working for a time at Columbia University he moved to the University of Pennsylvania in 1949. where he worked on the fundamental properties of neutrinos. He was an Guggenheim Fellow for the academic year 1981–1982.

Selected publications