Oral History: Michael Green (2014)

Michael Green received a B.S., M.S., and Doctor of Engineering, all in Mechanical Engineering, from the University of California, Berkeley, in 1962, 1964, and 1977 respectively. He is a licensed mechanical engineer in the State of California; holds a patent (US patent No. 5131488, issued 21 July 1992) for a variable wave form, variable frequency, variable phase, down hole seismic source for use in old and gas exploration; and has approximately 400 papers to his credit. Green has been elected as a full member of the International Academy of Electrotechnical Sciences (Moscow, Russia) and he has served on the board of the IEEE Council on Applied Superconductivity since its founding.

In this interview Michael Green discusses his education and career, especially his posts at the Lawrence Radiation Laboratory, Kernforschungszentrum Karlsrue, Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory, and Oxford University.