Oscar W. Greenberg

Physicist, Military Person

1932 –

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Who is Oscar W. Greenberg?

Oscar Wallace Greenberg is an American physicist and professor at University of Maryland, College Park. He is famous for positing the existence of a hidden, 3-valued charge, called color charge, of subatomic particles, ``quarks,'' in 1964, the same year that quarks were posited as constituents of hadrons by Murray Gell-Mann and, independently, by George Zweig.

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Born
Feb 18, 1932
New York City
Also known as
  • Oscar Greenberg
  • Oscar Wallace Greenberg
Nationality
  • United States of America
Profession
Education
  • PhD, Princeton University
    Physics
    ( - 1957)
Employment
  • University of Maryland, College Park
Lived in
  • Maryland
    (1961 - )

Submitted
on July 23, 2013

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