Early Life and Education
Born and raised in Portland, his father was English and mother Polish. His brother is violinist and Juilliard Quartet founding member Robert Mann. He moved to Los Angeles, California in 1946 and has remained there ever since. He received his B.S. and M.S. in physics from the University of California, Los Angeles, doing graduate work in nuclear and mathematical physics. Mann holds honorary doctorate degrees from the University of Southern California, The Johns Hopkins University, Western University, and the Technion – Israel Institute of Technology (Israel).
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