[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.

[citation needed] In 1945, he moved to University of Cambridge, and worked as a research student under Paul Dirac.

He obtained his PhD, Infinite Irreducible Representations of the Lorentz Group, at Cambridge in 1947 under Dirac.

Robert Langlands wrote in a biographical article of Harish-Chandra: He was considered for the Fields Medal in 1958, but a forceful member of the selection committee in whose eyes Thom was a Bourbakist was determined not to have two.

On the day after a conference organized for him and mathematician Armand Borel took place, Mehrotra died from his final heart attack.