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J. Presper Eckert and John Mauchly
John William Mauchly and J. Presper Eckert are the scientists credited with the invention of the Electronic Numerical Integrator and Computer (ENIAC), the first general-purpose electronic digital computer completed in 1946.
Mauchly was born August 30, 1907 in Cincinnati, Ohio.
His father was a physicist at the Carnegie Institute of Washington, D.C., and likely influenced young Mauchly to pursue science. Mauchly earned the Engineering Scholarship of the State of Maryland, which enabled him to enroll at Johns Hopkins University in the fall of 1925 as an undergraduate in the electrical engineering program.
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In 1927 he enrolled in the physics program at John Hopkins and went on to complete a Ph.D. in 1932. Soon after he became a professor of physics at Ursinus College near Philadelphia.
J. Presper Eckert Jr.
was born April 9, 1919 in Philadelphia. In 1937 he entered the Moore School of Electrical Engineering at the University of