Chris H. Greene
Chris H. Greene is an American physicist and the Albert Overhauser Distinguished Professor of Physics and Astronomy at Purdue University. He was elected a member of the National Academy of Sciences in 2019. Early life and education. Greene was born in 1954 in Lincoln, Nebraska. He earned a bachelor of science in physics from the University of Nebraska in 1976. He entered the graduate program at the University of Chicago, earning a master's degree in 1977 and a doctorate in 1980. His thesis, under Ugo Fano, was titled "Doubly-excited states of the alkaline earth atoms