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