John Morgan Greene (22 September 1928 – 22 October 2007) was an American theoretical physicist and applied mathematician, known for his work on solitons and plasma physics.
[2][3][4][5] 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[citation needed] with a thesis entitled "High-Order Corrections to the Nucleon-Nucleon Potential in Change-Symmetric Pseudoscalar Theory.
In 1982 he was Senior Technical Advisor in the theory group of General Atomics and simultaneously adjunct professor at the University of California, San Diego.
In 2006, he received the Leroy P. Steele Prize with Martin Kruskal, Robert M. Miura and Clifford S. Gardner[7] for his work on inverse scattering transformations in the theory of solitons.