Arno A. Penzias Receives Priestley Award

Arno A. Penzias, Vice President of Research at Bell Laboratories and recipient of the 1978 Nobel Prize for Chemistry, was awarded the 1989 Priestley Award for his discovery of cosmic microwave background radiation, leading to the establishment of the Big Bang theory of cosmology. At the ceremony, Dr. Penzias gave an address titled "Preparing for Tomorrow's World."