Steven P. Shearing, M.D., ’52
Inventor and Ophthalmologic Surgeon
Thanks to the creation of the “Shearing Lens” by Steven P. Shearing, M.D., ’52, thousands of people around the world have experienced the unique joy of improved sight after cataract surgery. A Fulbright Scholar, he was a member of the Nevada Inventors Hall of Fame, and only the second person to receive the American Society of Cataract and Refractive Surgery Innovator’s Award. In 1993, the Steven P. Shearing Chair of Ophthalmology was established at the University of California.
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Larry Cary ’70
Larry Cary '70, past president of the Brooklyn Tech Alumni Foundation, passed away on December 15, 2021 from complications from cancer.
moreMeredith C. Gourdine, Ph.D., ’48
Meredith C. Gourdine, Ph.D., '48, engineer, inventor, and Olympic medalist, was inducted into the Brooklyn Tech Alumni Hall of Fame in 1998.
moreKonrad Hayashi ’73
Throughout the pandemic Dr. Hayashi continued to serve on Covid duty, screening arriving civilian air passengers in Seattle and later overseeing mass vaccinations of soldiers in Georgia.
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