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Thomas J. Greytak is the Lester Wolfe Professor of Physics, Emeritus at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). He received his SB and MS degrees in Electrical Engineering in 1963, followed by a PhD in Physics in 1967 from MIT. Greytak joined the physics faculty at MIT in 1967 as an Assistant Professor and later became the Division Head of Atomic, Condensed Matter, and Plasma Physics in 1988. He served as the Associate Department Head of Physics from 1997 until his retirement in 2011, and was named Lester Wolfe Professor of Physics in 2007. Greytak's research has focused on Raman and Brillouin scattering using lasers, studies of gases in condensed matter systems near absolute zero, and specifically, Bose-Einstein Condensation of atomic hydrogen. His contributions to the field have been recognized through numerous awards, including the Albert Nelson Marquis Lifetime Achievement Award in 2020 and being named a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 2015. Over the years, he has also received various teaching awards for his excellence in undergraduate teaching.