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Indian-American mathematician (1923–1983)

Harish-Chandra MehrotraFRS^[1][3] (11 October 1923 – 16 October 1983) was an Indian-Americanmathematician and physicist who did fundamental work in representation theory, especially harmonic analysis on semisimple Lie groups.^[4][5][6]

Early life

Harish-Chandra Mehrotra was born in Kanpur.^[7] He was educated at B.N.S.D.

College, Kanpur and at the University of Allahabad.^[8] After receiving his master's degree in physics in 1940, he moved to the Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore for further studies under Homi J. Bhabha.^{[citation needed]}

In 1945, he moved to University of Cambridge, and worked as a research student under Paul Dirac.^[8] While at Cambridge, he attended lectures by Wolfgang Pauli, and during one of them, Mehrotra pointed out a mistake in Pauli's work.