The Zeta Beta Tau Foundation is honored to announce the establishment of the Dr. Thomas LeCompte Memorial Scholarship. Let us celebrate the memory and dedication of Brother Dr. Thomas J. LeCompte, Xi (Massachusetts Institute of Technology) 1985, who passed earlier this year, as he joins our brothers in the Chapter Eternal.

By embodying our Credo, Brother LeCompte ensured future generations of Zeta Beta Tau brothers have the opportunity to achieve academic excellence. Upon his passing, his family has directed the establishment the Dr. Thomas LeCompte Memorial Scholarship in his memory with the Zeta Beta Tau Foundation.

Brother LeCompte, a renowned and respected physicist who repeatedly advanced our understanding of the known universe, understood the value of higher education and was a firm advocate for our shared responsibility to support access to education for all.

As a member of the 1995 Fermilab team, his work established the existence of the “top quark,” the most massive known elementary particle, a finding that earned international recognition. He later served as the Physics Coordinator of the ATLAS experiment at CERN’s Large Hadron Collider, where, under his leadership, the ATLAS team discovered their first new particle, χ b (3P).

After retiring, Brother LeCompte proudly shared his passions with others, coaching the Benet Academy math team to numerous successes and, as an accomplished trumpeter, performing in the Andrew Marchese Orchestra. Up until he could no longer, Brother LeCompte worked with Stanford University research teams, driven to improve our collective lives before his passing.

Through the examples he set in life and after, Brother LeCompte’s legacy has forever strengthened Zeta Beta Tau.