Nobel Laureate Arno Penzias to visit campus
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Arno Penzias, the 1978 Nobel Prize winner in Physics for his work in radio astronomy, and who also discovered evidence supporting the Big Bang Theory, will speak on campus as part of the Distinguished Lecture Series sponsored by the Department of Computer Science and Engineering. Penzias will speak on Wednesday, April 13, at 10 a.m. in the Discovery Room, E163 Student Union.
In 1965, while tuning a small, yet very powerful and highly sensitive horn antenna for conducting radio astronomy experiments, Penzias and Robert Wilson noted a constant low level noise disrupting their reception. They could not find any evidence of malfunction in their equipment. As Penzias and Wilson continued to pursue their disruptive "static," they came to realize they had discovered the remnants of the explosion that created the universe. They realized they had stumbled onto the most conclusive evidence to date supporting the Big Bang Theory.
Penzias is a venture partner for New Enterprise Associates (NEA) in Menlo Park, Calif. He helps NEA portfolio companies in such areas as technology, strategy and intellectual property. Penzias has written two books and numerous articles on the impact of information technology on business and society. The holder of some two dozen patents, Penzias is a member of the National Academy of Sciences and the National Academy of Engineering.
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