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Jagdish Mehra

Born

in Meerut, India

April 08, 1931

Died

September 14, 2008

Genre

Science

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Indian-American physicist and historian of science born in Meerut, India on April 8, 1937. He came to the United States in 1957, and was educated at Neuchâtel, Switzerland, where he received his Ph.D. in 1963. He subsequently was appointed assistant professor of physics at Purdue University (1964-65), assistant professor of physics at University of Massachusetts, North Dartmouth (1965-67), program director of the Science Research Association at IBM Chicago (1967-69), special research associate at the University of Texas, Austin (1969-73), and professor at the Solvay Institute Brussels (1973-88).

Mehra served as UNESCO-Sir Julian Huxley Distinguished Professor of History of Science in Paris, and Trieste, Italy (1989-93), and was the Citadel D ...more

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	The Beat of a Different Drum: The Life and Science of Richard Feynman 4.14 avg rating — 85 ratings — published 1994 — 5 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Climbing the Mountain: The Scientific Biography of Julian Schwinger by Jagdish Mehra, Kimball Milton 4.33 avg rating — 12 ratings — published 2000 — 4 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Historical Development of Quantum Theory : Volume 1 - The Quantum Theory of Planck, Einstein, Bohr & Sommerfeld: Its Foundation & the Rise of its Difficulties 1900-25 by Jagdish Mehra, Helmut Rechenberg 4.38 avg rating — 8 ratings — published 1982 — 7 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Historical Development of Quantum Theory: Volume 4: Part 1: The Fundamental Equations of Quantum Mechanics 1925-1926; Part 2: The Reception of the New Quantum Mechanics 4.57 avg rating — 7 ratings — published 1982 — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Historical Development of Quantum Theory : Volume 3 - The Formulation of Matrix Mechanics & Its Modifications 1925-26 by Jagdish Mehra, Helmut Rechenberg 4.57 avg rating — 7 ratings — published 1982 — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Historical Development of Quantum Theory : Volume 6 - 1 The Probability Interpretation & the Statistical Transformation Theory, the Physical Interpretation, & the Empirical & Mathematical Foundations of Quantum Mechanics 1926-32 by Jagdish Mehra, Helmut Rechenberg 4.29 avg rating — 7 ratings — published 2000 — 5 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Historical Development of Quantum Theory : Volume 2 - The Discovery of Quantum Mechanics 1925 by Jagdish Mehra, Helmut Rechenberg 4.50 avg rating — 6 ratings — published 1982 — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	EINSTEIN, PHYSICS AND REALITY 3.14 avg rating — 7 ratings — published 1999	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Historical Development of Quantum Theory : Volume 6 - 2: Conceptual Completion & the Extensions of Quantum Mechanics, 1932-41 by Jagdish Mehra (Editor), Helmut Rechenberg (Editor) 4.75 avg rating — 4 ratings — published 2000 — 6 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Historical Development of Quantum Theory: Volume 5: Erwin Schrödinger and the Rise of Wave Mechanics. Part 1: Schrödinger in Vienna and Zurich 1887-1925 by Jagdish Mehra, Helmut Rechenberg really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 4 ratings — published 1987 — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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“If you want a branch of mathematics, you develop it in the physical context, not as something separate, which you then try to apply, rather than integrating it from the beginning.”
― Jagdish Mehra, Climbing the Mountain: The Scientific Biography of Julian Schwinger

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