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8.03 - MIT Help Sessions by Professor Wit Busza
Wit Busza is a professor in physics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). He obtained a B.Sc. (1960) and Ph.D. (1964) from University College London and joined MIT in 1969, becoming a full professor in 1979. In 1990, he was awarded the Buechner Prize for Outstanding Contributions to the Education Program in the Department of Physics, and in 1993 he was awarded the School of Science Prize for Excellence in Undergraduate Teaching at MIT. In 1995, Busza was appointed a Margaret MacVicar Faculty Fellow. He is a member of the Polish Academy of Arts and Sciences and a fellow of the American Physical Society.
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Busza's studies the field of quark–gluon plasma. He has been the spokesperson of the PHOBOS experiment at the Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider. PHOBOS has the largest pseudorapidity coverage of all detectors and is tailored for bulk particle multiplicity measurement.