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.
Mehra, J. (Ed.). The Physicist's Conception of Nature. Dordrecht, Netherlands: Reidel, 1973.
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.
Mehra, J. The Solvay Conferences on Physics. Aspects of the Development of Physics since 1911. Dordrecht, Netherlands: Reidel, 1975.
Mehra, J. The Beat of a Different Drum: The Life and Science of Richard Feynman. Oxford, England: Clarendon Press, 1994.
Mehra, J. Einstein, Physics and Reality. World Scientific, 1999.
Mehra, J. The Quantum Principle: Its Interpretation and Epistemology.
Mehra, J. The Golden Age of Theoretical Physics: Selected Essays. July 2000.
Mehra, J. and Milton, K. A. Climbing the Mountain: The Scientific Biography of Julian Swinger. 2000.
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.
Reviews
Brush, Stephen G. (January 1, 1977). American Scientist. 65 (1): 93–94. ISSN 0003-0996. JSTOR 27847655. doi:10.2307/27847655.
Cushing, James T. (June 1, 1996). Isis. 87 (2): 387–388. ISSN 0021-1753. JSTOR 236135. doi:10.2307/236135.
Ziman, John (May 1, 1975). American Scientist. 63 (3): 334. ISSN 0003-0996. JSTOR 27845471. doi:10.2307/27845471.
Heilbron, J. L. (September 1, 1985). "Artes compilationis". Isis. 76 (3): 388–393. ISSN 0021-1753. JSTOR 232871. doi:10.2307/232871.
Taylor, John C. (January 1, 1997). "Feynman". Notes and Records of the Royal Society of London. 51 (1): 156–157. ISSN 0035-9149. JSTOR 532050. doi:10.2307/532050.
Brush, Stephen G. (September 1, 1995). "Feynman's Success: Demystifying Quantum Mechanics". American Scientist. 83 (5): 476–477. ISSN 0003-0996. JSTOR 29775527. doi:10.2307/29775527.