By: Prof. Jagdish Mehra, prominent historian of modern physics and the author of The Historical Development of Quantum Theory, 6 volumes, (1982-2000), died on 14 September, 2008 at his home in Sugar Land (near Houston), Texas.
Jagdish Mehra was born on 8 April, 1931, in Meerut (north of New Delhi), India.
He finished high school and his early studies in India and went on to earn both bachelor and Master of Science degrees from Allahabad University.
He then began post-graduate studies at the Max Planck Institut für Physik at Göttingen, Germany (1952-1955).
In 1958 Mehra moved to the United States and obtained a second Master of Science degree from the University of California at Los Angeles. Later he completed work for a Ph.D. in theoretical physics at the University of Neuchatel in Switzerland (1963).
From 1964, he taught at various American universities; including Purdue and Southeastern Massachusetts. Additionally, he directed a program in physics and the history of physics for IBM in Chicago (1967 to 1969) until he was asked to join E. G. Sudarshan and Ilya Prigogine at The University of Texas at Austin, (1969 -1973).
Special professorships at both the University of Geneva and the Solvay Institute in Brussels lured him back to Europe in 1973. During the 1980s Mehra lectured at Rice University and the University of Houston, as well as at the International Center for Theoretical Physics in Trieste, Italy (1989-1991).
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