Wallace John Eckert
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American astronomer
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(Suggest an Edit or Addition)According to Wikipedia, Wallace John Eckert was an American astronomer, who directed the Thomas J. Watson Astronomical Computing Bureau at Columbia University which evolved into the research division of IBM. Life Eckert was born in Pittsburgh on June 19, 1902. Shortly thereafter, his parents John and Anna Margaret Eckert moved to Erie County, Pennsylvania, where they raised their four sons on a farm in Albion, PA. Wallace graduated from Albion High School in a class of six boys and eight girls. He graduated from Oberlin College in 1925, and earned an MA from Amherst College in 1926.
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