Jeffrey Ellis Mandula (born 1941 in New York City) is a physicist well known for the Coleman–Mandula theorem from 1967. He got his Ph.D. 1966 under Sidney Coleman at Harvard University. Thereafter he was a professor of applied mathematics at MIT and then of physics at Washington University in St. Louis.^[1] Today, he is responsible for the funding of science in the U.S. Department of Energy.