About John M. Greene
Lived 1928 – 2007 (aged 79). John M. Greene was an American physicist and university teacher.
Education After several successes as a high school student in the state mathematical competitions of Kansas, he received a Pepsi Cola scholarship at Caltech, where he earned a B. S. in 1950. In 1956 he received a PhD from the University of Rochester in nuclear physics under David Feldman with a thesis entitled "High-Order Corrections to the Nucleon-Nucleon Potential in Change-Symmetric Pseudoscalar Theory." He was a fellow of the American Physical Society (APS) and a member of the American Geophysical Union.
In 2006, he received the Leroy P. Steele Prize with Martin Kruskal, Robert M. Miura and Clifford S. Gardner for his work on inverse scattering transformations in the theory of solitons.
Personal life He was married from 1956 on and had a daughter and two grandchildren. He died as a consequence of Parkinson's disease. Greene's father was a professor of chemical engineering at Kansas State.
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Who was John M. Greene?
American physicist (1928–2007)
When was John M. Greene born?
John M. Greene was born on 22 September 1928 in Pittsburgh.
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John M. Greene died on 22 October 2007 in San Diego.
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John M. Greene was a physicist and university teacher.
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John M. Greene was American.
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