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.^[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]

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