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 cau ...

and professor at

University of Maryland College of Computer, Mathematical, and Natural Sciences The College of Computer, Mathematical, and Natural Sciences (CMNS) at the University of Maryland, College Park, is home to ten academic departments and a dozen interdisciplinary research centers and institutes. CMNS is one of 13 schools and colleg ...

. 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 Rutgers University (; RU), officially Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey, is a public land-grant research university consisting of four campuses in New Jersey. Chartered in 1766, Rutgers was originally called Queen's College, and was ...

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 research university in Princeton, New Jersey. Founded in 1746 in Elizabeth as the College of New Jersey, Princeton is the fourth-oldest institution of higher education in the United States and one of the ...

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 , ...

. * 1957 Air Force

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, 1st Lieutenant,

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. * 1959 NSF postdoctoral fellow at

MIT The Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) is a private land-grant research university in Cambridge, Massachusetts. Established in 1861, MIT has played a key role in the development of modern technology and science, and is one of the m ...

. * 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 Color charge is a property of quarks and gluons that is related to the particles' strong interactions in the theory of quantum chromodynamics (QCD). The "color charge" of quarks and gluons is completely unrelated to the everyday meanings of colo ...

. * 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 {{US-physicist-stub