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November 16, 1999
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
MEDIA CONTACT:
Glenn Small
glenn@jhu.edu
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Richard Sonnenfeldt Honored by Johns Hopkins
University
The Metropolitan New York Chapter of The Johns Hopkins
University Alumni
Association has given the 1999 Detlev W. Bronk Award for
Distinguished Achievement
to Richard W. Sonnenfeldt, a 1949 graduate, pioneer in the
development of color
television and generous benefactor of the university's Whiting
School of Engineering.
Sonnenfeldt, who earned 34 patents as a developer of color
television, accepted
the award November 13 in a ceremony in New York. He is a former
CEO and president
of Digitronics, vice president of RCA and executive vice
president of NBC. He was also
decorated for work as chief interpreter at the Nuremberg war
crimes trials in 1945.
The Bronk Award was created in 1986 to recognize outstanding
professional and
university achievement by an alumnus or friend of the university
in the New York
metropolitan area. Sonnenfeldt is the 13th recipient of the
award.
Sonnenfeldt, who lives in Port Washington, N.Y., has
contributed to the university
as a member of the Whiting School's National Advisory Council and
as a member of the
Biomedical Engineering
Department's
Advisory Council.
Sonnenfeldt established the Sonnenfeldt Family Fund in
Engineering at Johns
Hopkins in 1985 with a major gift.
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