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Oscar Greenberg
Who
Oscar Greenberg · Science & Medicine
What
Physicist; introduced color charge (quark parastatistics)
When
1932
Where
United States
Biography
Oscar Greenberg is recognized among Jewish contributors to Science & Medicine — Physicist; introduced color charge (quark parastatistics)
How & why
Oscar Wallace Greenberg is an American theoretical physicist at the University of Maryland who in 1964 introduced the hidden three-valued 'color' quantum number of quarks, a foundation of quantum chromodynamics and the modern theory of the strong force. His parastatistics work explained how quarks can share quantum states. He is Jewish and is listed among Jewish physicists.
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Source: Jinfo.org — Jews in Physics
Contributions & Sources
Physicist; introduced color charge (quark parastatistics)
1932
Source: Jinfo.org — Jews in Physics
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