Roger G. Newton

Roger Gerhard Newton (né Neuweg; November 30, 1924 – April 14, 2018) was a German-born American physicist.

Newton was born in Landsberg an der Warthe, Weimar Germany (present day Gorzów Wielkopolski) on November 30, 1924, to parents Margaret Blume and Arthur Newton, a dentist. Because of their Jewish heritage, Newton's family was targeted by the Gestapo. Though Newton enrolled at the University of Berlin, he and his family moved to Buffalo, New York after World War II. Shortly after earning his doctorate under the supervision of Julian Schwinger in 1953, ) and head editor of the Journal of Mathematical Physics. Additionally, he was granted fellowship into the American Physical Society and American Association for the Advancement of Science. Newton is well known for his book Scattering Theory of Waves and Particles. Newton died at home on April 14, 2018, aged 93.