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{{short description|Indian physicist}}
{{Use dmy dates|date=June 2018}}
{{Use British English|date=October 2018}}
{{Infobox scientist
| name = Anita Mehta
| image =
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| birth_date =
| birth_place = [[Calcutta]]
| death_date =
| death_place =
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| nationality = Indian
| field = Theoretical Physics
| work_institution = [[University of Oxford]]
| alma_mater = [[Oxford University]]
| doctoral_advisor =
| doctoral_students =
| known_for = ''Granular Physics''
| prizes = Rhodes Scholarship, Radcliffe Fellowship, Fellowship of the American Physical Society
}}
'''Anita Mehta''' (born [[Calcutta]]) is an Indian [[physicist]] and Leverhulme Visiting Professor at the [[University of Oxford]].<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.ling-phil.ox.ac.uk/people/anita-mehta|title=Anita Mehta {{!}} Faculty of Linguistics, Philology and Phonetics|website=www.ling-phil.ox.ac.uk|language=en|access-date=2018-11-14}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.leverhulme.ac.uk/funding/grant-schemes/visiting-professorships|title=Visiting Professorships {{!}} The Leverhulme Trust|website=www.leverhulme.ac.uk|language=en|access-date=2018-10-26}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.some.ox.ac.uk/people/anita-mehta/|title=Anita Mehta — Somerville College Oxford|website=www.some.ox.ac.uk|language=en|access-date=2018-10-26}}</ref>

==Life==
After her B.Sc. in Physics from [[Presidency College, Calcutta]], Mehta went to Oxford as the second Indian woman [[Rhodes Scholarship|Rhodes Scholar]]<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.rhodeshouse.ox.ac.uk/alumni/rhodes-scholar-database/|title=Rhodes House - Home of The Rhodes Scholarships|website=Rhodes House - Home of The Rhodes Scholarships|language=en|access-date=2018-10-26}}</ref> to [[St Catherine's College, Oxford|St Catherine's College]], [[Oxford University]], graduating with an MA and a DPhil in Theoretical Physics.<ref name=":0">{{Cite web|url=https://oxford.academia.edu/AnitaMehta|title=Anita Mehta {{!}} University of Oxford - Academia.edu|website=oxford.academia.edu|language=en|access-date=2018-10-26}}</ref> She then did postdoctoral work at [[IBM]], following this with a Research Associateship under the mentorship of Professor Sir [[Sam Edwards (physicist)|Sam Edwards]], when she pioneered the field of granular physics at the Cavendish Laboratory, Cambridge.<ref>{{cite news|title=At Cambridge, work's in progress|url=http://www.telegraphindia.com/1080112/jsp/calcutta/story_8773586.jsp|work=Calcutta Telegraph|date=12 January 2008}}</ref> Mehta was elected India's first Radcliffe Fellow to Harvard<ref>{{Cite news|url=https://www.radcliffe.harvard.edu/people/anita-mehta|title=Anita Mehta|date=2012-03-16|work=Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study at Harvard University|access-date=2018-10-26|language=en}}</ref> in 2006 and in 2007, awarded the Fellowship of the American Physical Society.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.aps.org/programs/honors/fellowships/archive-all.cfm?initial=&year=2007&unit_id=&institution=|title=APS Fellow Archive|website=www.aps.org|language=en|access-date=2018-10-26}}</ref> 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<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.bioinf.uni-leipzig.de/peopleStadler.html|title=Bioinformatics Leipzig - People|website=www.bioinf.uni-leipzig.de|language=en|access-date=2018-10-26}}</ref> among others.<ref name=":0" /> She has been an Academic Visitor of [[Somerville College, Oxford]].

==Works==

*Anita Mehta {{cite book|title=Granular Physics|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=BupzzGcmKdwC|date=28 June 2007|publisher=Cambridge University Press|isbn=978-1-139-46531-1}}
*Anita Mehta Granular Matter: An Interdisciplinary Approach. 1994 {{ISBN|978-1-4612-4290-1}}<ref>{{Cite book|url=https://www.springer.com/gp/book/9780387940656|title=Granular Matter - An Interdisciplinary Approach {{!}} Anita Mehta {{!}} Springer|language=en}}</ref>

==References==
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