Jagdish Mehra

Jagdish Mehra (April 8, 1931 – September 14, 2008) was an Indian-American physicist and historian of science.

Academic career

Mehra was educated at

He is particularly well known for a book in 6 volumes on The Historical Development of Quantum Theory,[2] which he wrote with Helmut Rechenberg. He also wrote a biography of Richard Feynman.

He also wrote a book on the controversy surrounding the exact role David Hilbert played in the development of the gravitation theory of Albert Einstein.

Works

• Mehra, J. (Ed.). The Physicist's Conception of Nature. Dordrecht, Netherlands: Reidel, 1973.
  doi:10.1007/978-94-010-2602-4
• Mehra, J. (Ed.). Proceedings of the Symposium on the Development of the Physicist's Conception of Nature in the Twentieth Century (Trieste, Italy; Sept. 18–25, 1972).
• Mehra, J. Einstein, Hilbert and the Theory of Gravitation. Dordrecht, Netherlands: Reidel, 1974.
  doi:10.1007/978-94-010-2194-4
• Mehra, J. The Solvay Conferences on Physics. Aspects of the Development of Physics since 1911. Dordrecht, Netherlands: Reidel, 1975.
  doi:10.1007/978-94-010-1867-8
• Mehra, J. The Beat of a Different Drum: The Life and Science of Richard Feynman. Oxford, England: Clarendon Press, 1994.
  ISBN 978-0198518877
• Mehra, J. Einstein, Physics and Reality. World Scientific, 1999.
  doi:10.1142/4135
• Mehra, J. The Quantum Principle: Its Interpretation and Epistemology.
  doi:10.1007/978-94-010-2234-7
• Mehra, J. The Golden Age of Theoretical Physics: Selected Essays. July 2000.
  doi:10.1142/4454
• Mehra, J. and Milton, K. A. Climbing the Mountain: The Scientific Biography of Julian Schwinger. 2000.
  ISBN 978-0198527459
• Mehra, J. and Rechenberg, H. The Historical Development of Quantum Theory, Vol. 1: The Quantum Theory of Planck, Einstein, Bohr and Sommerfeld. Its Foundation and the Rise of Its Difficulties (1900-1925). New York: Springer-Verlag, 1982.
• Mehra, J. and Rechenberg, H. The Historical Development of Quantum Theory, Vol. 2: The Discovery of Quantum Mechanics, 1925. New York: Springer-Verlag, 1982.
• Mehra, J. and Rechenberg, H. The Historical Development of Quantum Theory, Vol. 3: The Formulation of Matrix Mechanics and Its Modifications 1925-1926. New York: Springer-Verlag, 1982.
• Mehra, J. and Rechenberg, H. The Historical Development of Quantum Theory, Vol. 4: The Fundamental Equations of Quantum Mechanics 1925-1926. The Reception of the New Quantum Mechanics. New York: Springer-Verlag, 1982.
• Mehra, J. and Rechenberg, H. The Historical Development of Quantum Theory, Vol. 5: Erwin Schrödinger and the Rise of Wave Mechanics. Part 1: Schrödinger in Vienna and Zurich 1887-1925. New York: Springer-Verlag, 1987.
• Mehra, J. and Rechenberg, H. The Historical Development of Quantum Theory, Vol. 5: Erwin Schrödinger and the Rise of Wave Mechanics. Part 2: The creation of Wave Mechanics, Early Response and Applications 1925-1926. New York: Springer-Verlag, 1987.
• Mehra, J. and Rechenberg, H. The Historical Development of Quantum Theory, Vol. 6: The Completion of Quantum Mechanics, 1926-1941, Part 1: The probabilistic Interpretation and the Empirical and Mathematical Foundation of Quantum Mechanics, 1926-1936. New York: Springer-Verlag, 2000.
• Mehra, J. and Rechenberg, H. The Historical Development of Quantum Theory, Vol. 6: The Completion of Quantum Mechanics, 1926-1941, Part 2: The Conceptual Completion of Quantum Mechanics. New York: Springer-Verlag, 2001.
• Mehra, J. and Wightman, A. S. (Eds.). The Collected Works of Eugene Paul Wigner (1902-1995), 8 vols. Berlin: Springer-Verlag, 1990-2000.

• Brush, Stephen G. (January 1, 1977). "Reviewed work: The Solvay Conferences on Physics: Aspects of the Development of Physics since 1911, Jagdish Mehra". American Scientist. 65 (1): 93–94.
  JSTOR 27847655
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• Cushing, James T. (June 1, 1996). "Reviewed work: The Beat of a Different Drum: The Life and Science of Richard Feynman, Jagdish Mehra". Isis. 87 (2): 387–388.
  JSTOR 236135
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• Forman, Paul (September 1, 1975). "Reviewed work: The Physicist's Conception of Nature, Jagdish Mehra". Isis. 66 (3): 435–436.
  JSTOR 228876
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• Hendry, John (July 1, 1986). "Reviewed work: The Historical Development of Quantum Theory, Jagdish Mehra, Helmut Rechenberg; Constructing Quarks. A Sociological History of Particle Physics, Andrew Pickering". The British Journal for the History of Science. 19 (2): 206–208.
  JSTOR 4026596
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• Hendry, John (September 1, 1988). "Reviewed work: The Historical Development of Quantum Theory. Volume 5. Erwin Schrödinger and the Rise of Wave Mechanics, Jagdish Mehra, Helmut Rechenberg". The British Journal for the History of Science. 21 (3): 371–372.
  JSTOR 4026844
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• Kaiser, David (June 1, 2005). "Reviewed work: Climbing the Mountain: The Scientific Biography of Julian Schwinger, Jagdish Mehra, Kimball A. Milton". The British Journal for the History of Science. 38 (2): 239–240.
  S2CID 145229344
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• McMullin, Ernan (September 1, 1978). "Reviewed work: The Solvay Conferences on Physics: Aspects of the Development of Physics since 1911, Jagdish Mehra". Isis. 69 (3): 476–477.
  JSTOR 231083
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• Voss, David F. (June 10, 1994). "Reviewed work: No Ordinary Genius. The Illustrated Richard Feynman., Christopher Sykes; the Beat of a Different Drum. The Life and Science of Richard Feynman., Jagdish Mehra". Science. New Series. 264 (5165): 1617.
  PMID 17769610
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• Wessels, Linda (June 1, 1991). "Reviewed work: The Historical Development of Quantum Theory. Volume V: Erwin Schrödinger and the Rise of Wave Mechanics, Jagdish Mehra, Helmut Rechenberg". Isis. 82 (2): 404–405.
  JSTOR 234908
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• Ziman, John (May 1, 1975). "Reviewed work: The Physicist's Conception of Nature, Jagdish Mehra". American Scientist. 63 (3): 334.
  JSTOR 27845471
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• Heilbron, J. L. (September 1, 1985). "Artes compilationis". Isis. 76 (3): 388–393.
  S2CID 144541847
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• Taylor, John C. (January 1, 1997). "Feynman". Notes and Records of the Royal Society of London. 51 (1): 156–157.
  JSTOR 532050
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• Brush, Stephen G. (September 1, 1995). "Feynman's Success: Demystifying Quantum Mechanics". American Scientist. 83 (5): 476–477.
  JSTOR 29775527
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• Dyson, Freeman (September 27, 1974). "Honoring Dirac". Science. New Series. 185 (4157): 1160–1161.
  JSTOR 1738373
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