Peter Cary Waterman

Peter Cary Waterman (June 14, 1928 — June 3, 2012) was an American applied mathematician and physicist, known for his fundamental contributions to theory and computation of wave scattering in electromagnetics, optics and acoustics. He has introduced the extended boundary condition and T-matrix methods, widely used in the analysis of scattering in complex structures.

Biography Peter Cary Waterman was born on June 14, 1928, in Albany, New York. He graduated of Bethlehem Central High School in 1946 and received a bachelor's degree in physics from Syracuse University in 1951. From 1952 to 1953, he served as a physics instructor at Union College. He was later admitted to of Department of Applied Mathematics at Brown University under Alcoa Research Fellowship, receiving a master's degree. Studying elastic wave scattering under the supervision Rohn Truell, he received his PhD degree in applied mathematics in 1958.