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unusual facts about Elliott Ward Cheney, Jr.



Elliott Ward Cheney, Jr.

(See List of German rocket scientists in the United States.)

Cheney's mathematics team was supervised by Walter Schwidetsky—one of the Operation Paperclip scientists who came to the USA with Wernher von Braun.

During his career, Ward frequently spent his summers and a sabbatical semester in England at Lancaster University and at Leicester University.

Cheney was awarded grants for his research on approximation theory from the National Science Foundation, United States Air Force and United States Army as well as the UK Research Councils and the Italian Scientific Research Council, among others.

During undergraduate summers, Ward worked for the United States Forest Service, where he met Elizabeth Jean "Beth" (1931–1991), whom he married in 1952.


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