Chris H. Greene is an American physicist and the Albert Overhauser Distinguished Professor of Physics and Astronomy at Purdue University.
He entered the graduate program at the University of Chicago, earning a master's degree in 1977 and a doctorate in 1980.
[1] His thesis, under Ugo Fano, was titled "Doubly-excited states of the alkaline earth atoms".
[2][3] He spent a postdoctoral year at Stanford University working with Richard Zare.
[4] In 1981, Greene was appointed assistant professor of physics at Louisiana State University.