Oscar Wallace Greenberg (born February 18, 1932) is an American
physicist
A physicist is a scientist who specializes in the field of physics, which encompasses the interactions of matter and energy at all length and time scales in the physical universe.
Physicists generally are interested in the root or ultimate caus ...
and professor at
University of Maryland College of Computer, Mathematical, and Natural Sciences. In 1964, he posited the existence of quarks that obeyed parastatistics as the fundamental constituents of hadronic particles.
,
Educational background
He received his bachelor's degree from
Rutgers University
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in 1952.
He received his master's degree in 1954 and his doctorate degree in 1957, both from
Princeton University
Princeton University is a private university, private research university in Princeton, New Jersey. Founded in 1746 in Elizabeth, New Jersey, Elizabeth as the College of New Jersey, Princeton is the List of Colonial Colleges, fourth-oldest ins ...
.
Professional History
* 1956 Instructor at
Brandeis University
, mottoeng = "Truth even unto its innermost parts"
, established =
, type = Private research university
, accreditation = NECHE
, president = Ronald D. Liebowitz
, pro ...
.
* 1957 Air Force
Cambridge Research Center, 1st Lieutenant,
USAF.
* 1959
NSF
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Political organizations
*National Socialist Front, a Swedish National Socialist party
*NS-Frauenschaft, the women's wing of the former German Nazi party
*National Students Federation, a leftist Pakistani students' political gr ...
postdoctoral fellow at
MIT.
* 1961 Assistant professor, University of Maryland.
* 1963 Associate professor, University of Maryland.
* Fall, 1964, Member, Institute for Advanced Study.
* 1964 Proposed the existence of
color charge.
* 1965-66 Visiting Associate professor, Rockefeller University.
* 1967- Professor, University of Maryland.
* 1968 Guggenheim Fellowship
* 1968-69 Visiting Professor, Weizmann Institute of Science and Tel-Aviv University.
* 2013- Member of Adjunct Faculty, Rockefeller University.
References
External links
Greenberg, Oscar - UMD Physics
21st-century American physicists
United States Air Force officers
University of Maryland, College Park faculty
Living people
1932 births
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