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- Velvl Greene (July 5, 1928 – November 21, 2011) was a Canadian–American–Israeli scientist and academic. Specializing in public health and bacteriology, he was a professor of public health and microbiology at the University of Minnesota from 1959 to 1986, teaching over 30,000 students. He developed the first university-level curriculum in environmental microbiology in response to an outbreak of staph infections at American hospitals in the late 1950s. In 1961 he began working for the NASA Planetary Quarantine Division in an exobiology program that sought to determine the presence of microbes in outer space. He immigrated to Israel in 1986, serving as chair of epidemiology and public health and professor emeritus at Ben-Gurion University of the Negev and director of that school's Lord Jacobovitz Center for Jewish Medical Ethics until 2009. Coming from a secular Zionist background, Greene became a baal teshuva and Lubavitcher Hasid in the 1960s. He conducted a three-decade-long correspondence with the Lubavitcher Rebbe discussing the compatibility between Torah teachings and scientific knowledge. (en)
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- Velvl (William) Greene (en)
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- Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada (en)
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- B.S. agriculture, University of Manitoba (en)
- M.S. dairy bacteriology, University of Manitoba (en)
- PhD, dairy bacteriology, University of Minnesota (en)
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- conversation between Velvl Greene and the Lubavitcher Rebbe (en)
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- "Is this right?" Greene asked the Rebbe. "Can I really do this? Other religions say you shouldn't search. And the Torah doesn't say there's life on Mars.""Professor Greene", the Rebbe replied, "you should look for life on Mars. And if you don't find it there, you should look elsewhere. And if you don't find it there, you should look elsewhere. Because for you to sit here and say that God didn't create life elsewhere is to put limits on God, and no one can do that". (en)
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- The Influence of Heat-Induced Chemical Changes in Milk on Lactic Streptocci (en)
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- Velvl Greene (July 5, 1928 – November 21, 2011) was a Canadian–American–Israeli scientist and academic. Specializing in public health and bacteriology, he was a professor of public health and microbiology at the University of Minnesota from 1959 to 1986, teaching over 30,000 students. He developed the first university-level curriculum in environmental microbiology in response to an outbreak of staph infections at American hospitals in the late 1950s. In 1961 he began working for the NASA Planetary Quarantine Division in an exobiology program that sought to determine the presence of microbes in outer space. He immigrated to Israel in 1986, serving as chair of epidemiology and public health and professor emeritus at Ben-Gurion University of the Negev and director of that school's Lord Jacobo (en)
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