Jagdish Mehra

Jagdish Mehra (April 8, 1931 – September 14, 2008) was an Indian-American historian of science. Mehra was educated at Allahabad University, the Max Planck Institut für Physik, and the University of California at Los Angeles and obtained a Ph.D. in theoretical physics at the University of Neuchatel.

He subsequently taught at Purdue University, Southeastern Massachusetts University, the University of Geneva, the Solvay Institute in Brussels, Rice University, the University of Houston, and the International Center for Theoretical Physics.

He is particularly well known for a book in 6 volumes on The Historical Development of Quantum Theory, 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.