Anita Mehta

Anita Mehta (born Calcutta) is an Indian physicist and Leverhulme Visiting Professor at the University of Oxford.[1][2][3]

Anita Mehta
Born
Calcutta
NationalityIndian
Alma mater Oxford University
Known forGranular Physics
AwardsRhodes Scholarship, Radcliffe Fellowship, Fellowship of the American Physical Society
Scientific career
FieldsTheoretical Physics
InstitutionsUniversity of Oxford

Life

After her B.Sc. in Physics from Presidency College, Calcutta, Mehta went to Oxford as the second Indian woman Rhodes Scholar[4] to St Catherine's College, Oxford University, graduating with an MA and a DPhil in Theoretical Physics.[5] She then did postdoctoral work at IBM, following this with a Research Associateship under the mentorship of Professor Sir Sam Edwards, when she pioneered the field of granular physics at the Cavendish Laboratory, Cambridge.[6] Mehta was elected India's first Radcliffe Fellow to Harvard[7] in 2006 and in 2007, awarded the Fellowship of the American Physical Society.[8] Mehta has been a visiting professor at the University of Rome, the University of Leipzig, the Institut de Physique Theorique, CEA Saclay and the Max Planck Institute for Mathematics in the Sciences[9] among others.[5] She has been an Academic Visitor of Somerville College, Oxford.

Works
  • Anita Mehta Granular Physics. Cambridge University Press. 28 June 2007. ISBN 978-1-139-46531-1.
  • Anita Mehta Granular Matter: An Interdisciplinary Approach. 1994 ISBN 978-1-4612-4290-1[10]


References
  1. "Anita Mehta | Faculty of Linguistics, Philology and Phonetics". www.ling-phil.ox.ac.uk. Retrieved 14 November 2018.
  2. "Visiting Professorships | The Leverhulme Trust". www.leverhulme.ac.uk. Retrieved 26 October 2018.
  3. "Anita Mehta — Somerville College Oxford". www.some.ox.ac.uk. Retrieved 26 October 2018.
  4. "Rhodes House - Home of The Rhodes Scholarships". Rhodes House - Home of The Rhodes Scholarships. Retrieved 26 October 2018.
  5. "Anita Mehta | University of Oxford - Academia.edu". oxford.academia.edu. Retrieved 26 October 2018.
  6. "At Cambridge, work's in progress". Calcutta Telegraph. 12 January 2008.
  7. "Anita Mehta". Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study at Harvard University. 16 March 2012. Retrieved 26 October 2018.
  8. "APS Fellow Archive". www.aps.org. Retrieved 26 October 2018.
  9. "Bioinformatics Leipzig - People". www.bioinf.uni-leipzig.de. Retrieved 26 October 2018.
  10. Granular Matter - An Interdisciplinary Approach | Anita Mehta | Springer.
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