Oscar W. Greenberg

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Oscar Wallace Greenberg 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. He grew up in Newark during the 1930's, and has one brother, three children, and one grandchild.

[edit] Educational Background

• 1952 Bachelor's degree, Rutgers University
• 1954 Master's degree, Princeton University
• 1957 Doctorate degree, Princeton University

[edit] Professional History

• 1956 Instructor at Brandeis University.
• 1957 Air Force Cambridge Research Center, 1st Lieutenant, USAF.
• 1959 NSF postdoctoral fellow at MIT.
• 1961 Assistant professor at University of Maryland.
• 1963 Associate professor at University of Maryland.
• 1964 Proposed the existence of color charge.
• 1967 Professor at University of Maryland.