Thaddeus Mann

{{Short description|Polish chemist (1908–1993)}} {{Use dmy dates|date=February 2025}} {{Infobox scientist | name = Thaddeus Mann | honorific_suffix = CBE FRS | image = Thaddeus_Mann.gif | nationality = | birth_name = Thaddeus Robert Rudolph Mann | birth_date = {{birth date|1908|12|04| df=yes}} | birth_place = Lwow, Austria-Hungary (now Lviv, Ukraine) | death_date = {{Death date and age|1993|11|27|1908|04|df=yes}} | death_place = Cambridge, England | spouse = Cecilia Lutwak-Mann | partner = | children = | education = Johannes Casimirus University, Lwow (Doctor of Medicine, 1934); Molteno Institute, Cambridge | child = | fields = | known_for = | workplaces = Molteno Institute | thesis_title = | thesis_url = | thesis_year = | doctoral_advisor = | academic_advisors = | doctoral_students = }} '''Thaddeus Robert Rudolph Mann''' CBE FRS<ref>{{Cite journal |last=Jones |first=Roy |date=2023 |title=Thaddeus Robert Rudolph Mann. 4 December 1908 – 27 November 1993 |url=https://royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/rsbm.2022.0051 |journal=Biographical Memoirs of Fellows of the Royal Society |volume=74|pages=283–294 |doi=10.1098/rsbm.2022.0051 |doi-access=free }}</ref> (4 December 1908 – 27 November 1993) was a [[biochemist]] who made significant contributions to the field of [[reproductive biology]]. He was born in [[Lviv|Lwow]], [[Austria-Hungary]] (now [[Ukraine]]) and was educated at [[Lviv University|Lwow University]]. He studied medicine at the [[Lviv University|Johannes Casimirus University]] in Lwow, obtaining the degrees of Physician in 1932 and Doctor of Medicine in 1934.

He continued his education at the [[Molteno Institute for Research in Parasitology|Molteno Institute]], [[Cambridge]] on a [[Rockefeller University|Rockefeller Fellowship]], 1935–1937, and remained at the [[University of Cambridge]] during the rest of his career. He died in Cambridge.<ref name=Obituary1993/>

Mann began his career in the laboratory of [[Jakub Karol Parnas|Professor Jacob Karol Parnas]] (1884–1949) in Poland, where he was involved in research on [[glycolysis]] and muscle energy metabolism.<ref name=EDINA1989/>

He was elected a [[Fellow of the Royal Society]] in 1951.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://royalsociety.org/Lists-of-Royal-Society-Fellows-1660-2007/|title=Lists of Royal Society Fellows 1660-2007|publisher=The Royal Society|accessdate=14 July 2010|location=London}}</ref>

He was married to [[Cecilia Lutwak-Mann]], an endocrinologist and physiologist.<ref name="Obituary1993" />

==Publications== Thaddeus Mann published more than 250 papers, and several books.<ref name=Obituary1993/>

*{{citation |date=1954 |author=Mann, T |title=The Biochemistry of Semen |publisher=London: Methuen & Co; New York: John Wiley & Sons |url= https://archive.org/stream/biochemistryofse00mann#page/n5/mode/2up}}

==Further reading== *Ostrowski WS (1990) Thaddeus Mann. Life and work. Andrologia. 1990;22 Suppl 1:3–9.

== References == {{reflist|2|refs= <ref name=EDINA1989>{{citation |date=24 October 1989 |title=Professor Thaddeus Mann (FRS) in Conversation with Dr Robin Harrison |publisher=[[EDINA|Edina: Film and Sound Online]] |url=http://www.filmandsound.ac.uk/collections/records/0028-0000-2749-0000-0-0000-0000-0.html |accessdate=11 May 2010}}</ref>

<ref name=Obituary1993>{{citation |date=9 December 1993 |author=Polge, Chris |title=Obituary: Professor Thaddeus Mann |work=The Independent |url= https://www.independent.co.uk/news/people/obituary-professor-thaddeus-mann-1466305.html |accessdate=11 May 2010}}</ref> }}

==External links== *{{citation |date=24 October 1989 |title=Professor Thaddeus Mann (FRS) in Conversation with Dr Robin Harrison |publisher=[[EDINA|Edina: Film and Sound Online]] |url=http://www.filmandsound.ac.uk/collections/records/0028-0000-2749-0000-0-0000-0000-0.html |accessdate=11 May 2010}} {{FRS 1951}} {{Authority control}}

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