Anita Mehta Explained
Anita Mehta |
Birth Place: | Calcutta |
Nationality: | Indian |
Field: | Theoretical Physics |
Work Institution: | University of Oxford |
Alma Mater: | Oxford University |
Known For: | Granular Physics |
Prizes: | Rhodes Scholarship, Radcliffe Fellowship, Fellowship of the American Physical Society |
Anita Mehta (born Calcutta) is an Indian physicist and Leverhulme Visiting Professor at the University of Oxford.[1] [2] [3]
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. She has been an Academic Visitor of Somerville College, Oxford.
Works
- Anita Mehta Book: Granular Physics. 28 June 2007. Cambridge University Press. 978-1-139-46531-1.
- Anita Mehta Granular Matter: An Interdisciplinary Approach. 1994 [10]
Notes and References
- Web site: Anita Mehta Faculty of Linguistics, Philology and Phonetics. www.ling-phil.ox.ac.uk. en. 2018-11-14.
- Web site: Visiting Professorships The Leverhulme Trust. www.leverhulme.ac.uk. en. 2018-10-26.
- Web site: Anita Mehta — Somerville College Oxford. www.some.ox.ac.uk. en. 2018-10-26.
- Web site: Rhodes House - Home of The Rhodes Scholarships. Rhodes House - Home of The Rhodes Scholarships. en. 2018-10-26.
- Web site: Anita Mehta University of Oxford - Academia.edu. oxford.academia.edu. en. 2018-10-26.
- News: At Cambridge, work's in progress. https://archive.today/20150417213342/http://www.telegraphindia.com/1080112/jsp/calcutta/story_8773586.jsp. dead. 17 April 2015. Calcutta Telegraph. 12 January 2008.
- News: Anita Mehta. 2012-03-16. Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study at Harvard University. 2018-10-26. en.
- Web site: APS Fellow Archive. www.aps.org. en. 2018-10-26.
- Web site: Bioinformatics Leipzig - People. www.bioinf.uni-leipzig.de. en. 2018-10-26. 10 October 2018. https://web.archive.org/web/20181010053022/http://www.bioinf.uni-leipzig.de/peopleStadler.html. dead.
- Book: Granular Matter - An Interdisciplinary Approach Anita Mehta Springer. en.