1. John Mauchly
Sebastian Mauchly had a PhD in physics from the University of Cincinnati and in 1913 the family moved to Washington D.C. when Sebastian was "appointed as head of the Terrestrial Electricity and Magnetism section at the Carnegie Institute" (upenn). ... By the end of his sophomore year, however, he was bored with the engineering courses, so "he switched majors and enrolled in the physics Ph.D. program" (Keiger). ... He had a difficult time finding a position as most of the "openings in the nations leading physics departments" (maxmon) were for the current research interest, nuclear physics. ....
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