Alfred K. Mann (September 4, 1920 â January 13, 2013) was an American particle physicist, known for his role in the discovery of fundamental properties of neutrinos.
Born in New York, Mann earned all three of his degrees from the University of Virginia: BA in philosophy in 1942, MS in physics in 1946, and PhD in physics 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 1981âÂÂ1982. From his obituary in The Philadelphia Inquirer: