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| Jun 12, 2013 at 11:19 | comment | added | Lennart Meier | Bernard Dwork undergraduate studies were also in electrical engineering. | |
| Jun 12, 2013 at 11:13 | comment | added | Tomasz Kania | Bronisław Knaster studied medicine in Paris and served as a doctor in the Polish Army during the Polish–Soviet War in 1920. Although, I am not sure whether Knaster really counts because later on he had received a PhD in mathematics. | |
| Jun 12, 2013 at 11:12 | comment | added | Carlo Beenakker | Von Neumann actually first did a Ph.D. in mathematics, and then followed that up with studies in chemical engineering to please his father (who was worried that math would not provide a decent job for his son) | |
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| Jun 12, 2013 at 10:58 | comment | added | Steve Huntsman | Von Neumann's were in chemical engineering IIRC. | |
| Jun 12, 2013 at 10:39 | history | answered | Name | CC BY-SA 3.0 |