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Jagdish Mehra

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Jagdish Mehra


Born
in Meerut, India
April 08, 1931

Died
September 14, 2008

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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
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Average rating: 4.22 · 155 ratings · 9 reviews · 33 distinct works
The Beat of a Different Dru...

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EINSTEIN, PHYSICS AND REALITY

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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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