A native of England, James Edward Talmage was educated at, among others, Lehigh University, Johns Hopkins University, and received his doctorate from Illinois Wesleyan University. I’ve been told, but haven’t independently confirmed, that he was the first Latter-day Saint to receive a Ph.D. — a degree that was still something of a novelty in the English-speaking world. (Wikimedia Commons public domain image)
A native of Norway, John Andreas Widtsoe earned a bachelor’s degree here in the Boston area, at Harvard, and received his Ph.D. at the University of Göttingen, in Germany.
(Photo from Ryan Reeder at the English Language Wikipedia)
The background of these two apostle-scientists may be well known to everybody out there. Or maybe not. In either case, this short article might be of interest to some:
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