Life
Wallace John Eckert was born in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania on January 19, 1902. Shortly thereafter, his parents John and Anna Margaret (née Heil) Eckert moved to Erie County, PA 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.
He started teaching at Columbia University in 1926, and earned his PhD from Yale in 1931 in astronomy under Professor Ernest William Brown (1866–1938).
He married Dorothy Woodworth Applegate in 1932. They raised three children Alice, John and Penelope.
He was not related to another computer pioneer of the time, J. Presper Eckert (1919–1995).
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