Oscar W. Greenberg
Encyclopedia
Oscar Wallace Greenberg (born February 13, 1932) is an American physicist
and professor at University of Maryland, College Park
. He is famous for positing the existence of a property of subatomic particles called color charge
.
Physicist
A physicist is a scientist who studies or practices physics. Physicists study a wide range of physical phenomena in many branches of physics spanning all length scales: from sub-atomic particles of which all ordinary matter is made to the behavior of the material Universe as a whole...
and professor at University of Maryland, College Park
University of Maryland, College Park
The University of Maryland, College Park is a top-ranked public research university located in the city of College Park in Prince George's County, Maryland, just outside Washington, D.C...
. He is famous for positing the existence of a property of subatomic particles called color charge
Color charge
In particle physics, color charge is a property of quarks and gluons that is related to the particles' strong interactions in the theory of quantum chromodynamics . Color charge has analogies with the notion of electric charge of particles, but because of the mathematical complications of QCD,...
.
Educational background
- 1952 Bachelor's degree, Rutgers University
- 1954 Master's degree, Princeton University
- 1957 Doctorate degree, Princeton University
Professional History
- 1956 Instructor at Brandeis UniversityBrandeis UniversityBrandeis University is an American private research university with a liberal arts focus. It is located in the southwestern corner of Waltham, Massachusetts, nine miles west of Boston. The University has an enrollment of approximately 3,200 undergraduate and 2,100 graduate students. In 2011, it...
. - 1957 Air Force Cambridge Research Center, 1st Lieutenant, USAF.
- 1959 NSFNational Science FoundationThe National Science Foundation is a United States government agency that supports fundamental research and education in all the non-medical fields of science and engineering. Its medical counterpart is the National Institutes of Health...
postdoctoral fellow at MIT. - 1961 Assistant professor at University of Maryland.
- 1963 Associate professor at University of Maryland.
- 1964 Proposed the existence of color chargeColor chargeIn particle physics, color charge is a property of quarks and gluons that is related to the particles' strong interactions in the theory of quantum chromodynamics . Color charge has analogies with the notion of electric charge of particles, but because of the mathematical complications of QCD,...
. - 1967 Professor at University of Maryland.
External links
- http://www.physics.umd.edu/people/faculty/greenberg.html