Thomas Greytak is the Lester Wolfe Professor of Physics, emeritus, at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. His areas of research include experimental low temperature condensed matter physics and superfluid systems.[2] Currently, he is working with Daniel Kleppner on research concerning ultra cooled atomic hydrogen.

Thomas Greytak
NationalityAmerican
Alma materMIT
Known forAtomic physics
Scientific career
FieldsPhysics, especially condensed matter
InstitutionsMIT
Doctoral studentsJulia Steinberger[1]
Websiteweb.mit.edu/physics/people/faculty/greytak_thomas.html

All of his academic degrees are from MIT (SB and MS degrees in Electrical Engineering (1963) and a PhD in Physics (1967)).[2]

He was married to Elizabeth Bardeen, daughter of Nobel Laureate, John Bardeen.

References edit

  1. ^ Julia Steinberger (2004). Progress towards high precision measurements on ultracold metastable hydrogen and trapping deuterium. mit.edu (PhD thesis). Massachusetts Institute of Technology. hdl:1721.1/28649. OCLC 655586822.  
  2. ^ a b "Thomas J. Greytak '63 PhD '67". MIT Department of Physics. Retrieved 27 April 2021.