Sachem Alumni Spotlight
George Svetlichny, Class of 1959
Sachem’s fist ever Salutatorian in 1959.
Received his B.S. in physics from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute in 1963 and a Ph.D. in physics from Princeton in 1968.
After working in the physics department at the University of Maryland and at the Laboratório di Cibernetica in Naples, Italy, he is now a full professor in the math department of the Pontifícia Universidade Católica (PUC) in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.
-Words by Chris R. Vaccaro