Roger G. Newton

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Roger Gerhard Newton (born November 30, 1924 as Gerhard Neuweg in Landsberg (Warthe) ; † April 14, 2018 in Bloomington , Indiana ) was an American theoretical physicist .

He was born as the son of the Jewish dentist Arthur Neuweg and Margarete Minna Blanca Neuweg in Landsberg an der Warthe. At the age of 13 he built a shortwave receiver in Berlin to follow the boxing match between Max Schmeling and Joe Louis on June 22, 1938. His father could no longer practice under the Nazis, and his mother was imprisoned for planning to escape to South America. Newton had to do forced labor from 1942. He spent the last months of the war in the cellars of bombed apartments in Berlin, and he emigrated after the war using the United Jewish Appeal toBuffalo . In 1947 he began studying at Harvard University .

Newton received his doctorate in 1953 under Julian Schwinger at Harvard University , where he met Ruth Gordon , whom he married on June 18, 1953. He then worked at the Institute for Advanced Study from 1953 to 1955 (and later in 1979) . From 1955 he was on the physics faculty of Indiana University , most recently as Distinguished Professor Emeritus. 1973 to 1980 he was chairman of the physics faculty and 1982 to 1986 of the Institute for Advanced Study at Indiana University. He was visiting professor at Ohio State University , the University of Rome , the University of Montpellier and the University of Geneva , among others .

Newton dealt in particular with scattering problems in classical physics and quantum mechanics, about which he published a standard textbook. He also examined the inverse scattering problem and the S-matrix theory in elementary particle physics (including Regge theory) as well as questions of quantum field theory. He also published popular science books on physics and a textbook on quantum mechanics.

He was Associate Editor of the American Journal of Physics and Editor of the Journal of Mathematical Physics from 1992 to 2005. He was a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science and the American Physical Society .

Fonts

  • Scattering theory of waves and particles , McGraw Hill 1966, 2nd edition, Springer 1982, Dover 2002
  • Great moments in physics - how nature works , Birkhäuser 1995 (English original: Thinking About Physics, What Makes Nature Tick?, Harvard University Press, 1993)
  • Truth of Science - physical theories and reality , Harvard University Press, 1997
  • How physics controls reality. Einstein was correct, but Bohr won the game , World Scientific 2009
  • Quantum Physics: A Text for Graduate Students , Springer Verlag, 2002
  • Galileo's Pendulum: From the Rhythm of Time to the Making of Matter , Harvard University Press, 2004
  • From Clockwork to Crapshoot: A History of Physics , Harvard University Press, 2007
  • The complex j-plane. Complex angular momentum in quantum scattering theory , Benjamin 1964
  • Inverse Schrödinger scattering in three dimensions , Springer 1989
  • with Robert Gilbert (editor): Analytic methods in mathematical physics , Gordon and Breach 1977 (Symposium Indiana University 1968)

Web links

References

  1. ^ Obituary for Roger G. Newton. Allen Funeral Home and Crematory, accessed April 20, 2018 .
  2. ↑ Entry at encyclopedia.com , accessed on April 21, 2018
  3. ↑ For example with Res Jost Construction of Potentials from the S-Matrix for systems of differential equations , Nuovo Cimento, Vol. 1, 1955, p. 590
personal data
SURNAME Newton, Roger G.
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Newton, Roger Gerhard (full name); Gerhard Neuweg (birth name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American theoretical physicist
DATE OF BIRTH November 30, 1924
PLACE OF BIRTH Landsberg (Warta)
DATE OF DEATH April 14, 2018
Place of death Bloomington , Indiana