Eckert, Wallace John (1902-71)

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Nov 2000

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"Encyclopedia of Astronomy and Astrophysics, Edited by Paul Murdin, article 3598. Bristol: Institute of Physics Publishing, 2001

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History And Archaeoastronomy, Biographies

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Computer scientist and astronomer. Born in Pittsburgh, PA, Eckert was a pioneer of the use of IBM punched card equipment for astronomical calculations. As director of the US Nautical Almanac Office he introduced computer methods to calculate and print tables instead of relying on human `computers'. When, later, he became director of the Watson Scientific Computing Laboratory at Columbia Universit...

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