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 | |
| Nationality | Indian |
| Alma mater | Oxford University |
| Known for | Granular Physics |
| Awards | Rhodes Scholarship, Radcliffe Fellowship, Fellowship of the American Physical Society |
| Scientific career | |
| Fields | Theoretical Physics |
| Institutions | University 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
- ^ "Anita Mehta | Faculty of Linguistics, Philology and Phonetics". www.ling-phil.ox.ac.uk. Retrieved 14 November 2018.
- ^ "Visiting Professorships | The Leverhulme Trust". www.leverhulme.ac.uk. Retrieved 26 October 2018.
- ^ "Anita Mehta — Somerville College Oxford". www.some.ox.ac.uk. Retrieved 26 October 2018.
- ^ "Rhodes House - Home of The Rhodes Scholarships". Rhodes House - Home of The Rhodes Scholarships. Retrieved 26 October 2018.
- ^ a b "Anita Mehta | University of Oxford - Academia.edu". oxford.academia.edu. Retrieved 26 October 2018.
- ^ "At Cambridge, work's in progress". Calcutta Telegraph. 12 January 2008. Archived from the original on 17 April 2015.
- ^ "Anita Mehta". Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study at Harvard University. 16 March 2012. Retrieved 26 October 2018.
- ^ "APS Fellow Archive". www.aps.org. Retrieved 26 October 2018.
- ^ "Bioinformatics Leipzig - People". www.bioinf.uni-leipzig.de. Retrieved 26 October 2018.
- ^ Granular Matter - An Interdisciplinary Approach | Anita Mehta | Springer.