4 Caltech Alumni to Receive Awards

Four Caltech graduates will receive the Distinguished Alumni Award at the school’s annual Seminar Day on Saturday.

The award is given to former Caltech graduate or undergraduate students whose postgraduate careers have been marked by high achievement in science, engineering, business, industry or public service.

The winners include two university professors, Sidney R. Coleman of Harvard and Kurt M. Mislow of Princeton, and two business executives, Hugh F. Colvin of Unitek Corp. and Anthony J. Iorillo of Hughes Aircraft Co.

Coleman, a leading authority in theoretical high-energy physics, received his doctorate from Caltech in 1962. Mislow, who received his doctorate in 1947, is a stereochemical theorist and experimentalist.

Colvin, a 1936 chemistry graduate, founded Unitek. The company, which manufactured tools, equipment and materials for orthodontists, was subsequently sold to Bristol-Myers.

Iorillo, a 1959 mechanical engineering graduate who received his master’s in aeronautics in 1960, is president of the Space and Communications Group of Hughes. He is the inventor of the gyrostat-stabilized aircraft.