Education
After attending the Storm King School in Cornwall-on-Hudson, New York Greene attended Columbia College where he majored in Sociology and Asian Studies, and graduated in 1967.
After attending the Storm King School in Cornwall-on-Hudson, New York Greene attended Columbia College where he majored in Sociology and Asian Studies, and graduated in 1967.
He is currently Affiliate Professor of Earth & Space Sciences at the University of Washington. He then went on to graduate study in Japanese language and literature in the Department of East Asian Languages at Columbia. While on a National Defense Education Acting fellowship in 1968 to study Japanese at Columbia, Greene, an outspoken opponent of the Vietnam War, was drafted out of graduate school in November 1968.
On release from alternative service he enrolled in the University of Washington graduate program in History, completing a Doctor of Philosophy in 1978 in History of Science, with minor fields in European Intellectual History, History of Ancient Greece, and History of Japan.
They have one daughter, Annie, born in 1983. Greene lectured at Oregon State University.
He is a member of the History of Science Society.