Education
Newman"s degrees (Bachelor of Science 1956, Master of Science 1957, and Doctor of Science 1960) are all from Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and were all taken in the field of Naval Architecture and Marine Engineering.
Newman"s degrees (Bachelor of Science 1956, Master of Science 1957, and Doctor of Science 1960) are all from Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and were all taken in the field of Naval Architecture and Marine Engineering.
Together with David Evans, he initiated the International Workshop on Water Waves and Floating Bodies. He is also known for his contribution in the development of the wave–structure interaction code WAMIT. He is currently emeritus professor of Naval Architecture at Massachusetts Institute of Technology. From 1959 to 1967 he worked as a research naval architect at David Taylor Model Basin.
In 1967 he moved back to Massachusetts Institute of Technology and held a long academic career there.
In 1992, the Norwegian University of Science and Technology in Trondheim awarded him an honorary doctorate. In 2008, a symposium was organized in his honor at the 27th International Conference on Offshore Mechanics and Arctic Engineering.
Newman is married to Kathleen Smedley Kirk. They have three children.
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He is a member of the National Academy of Engineering, and of the Norwegian Academy of Science and Letters.