We are deeply saddened by the recent death of Brooklyn Tech alumnus and Nobel Prize winner, Dr. Arno A. Penzias ’51. Penzias’s astronomical probes yielded incontrovertible evidence of a dynamic, evolving universe with a clear point of origin, confirming the Big Bang theory of cosmology. He died in January at age 90.

“None of it would have been like this if it weren’t for the foundation I got at Brooklyn Tech,” noted Penzias of his groundbreaking career — from Bell Labs to Silicon Valley —  in his speech in 2000 at his Brooklyn Tech Alumni Hall of Fame induction ceremony.