Melville Saul Green (9 June 1922 – 27 March 1979) was an American statistical physicist.
He was born in Jamaica, New York, and studied at Columbia University, where he was awarded M.A.
He was appointed head of the statistical physics section of the then National Bureau of Standards from 1954 to 1968.
[citation needed] He worked on the Bogoliubov–Born–Green–Kirkwood–Yvon hierarchy,[2] which however is not named for him, but for Herbert S. Green.
Green is also known as a co-editor of an influential review series Phase Transitions and Critical Phenomena.