Talk:John G. Trump

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Doctorate
John Trump is usually said, as in the main article, to have been awarded the degree of Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.) by the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, but his "Memorial Tribute" on the National Academy of Engineering's website (see main list of references) actually says he received a D.Sc. in electrical engineering there in 1933. As Wikipedia esteems secondary sources above primary, on their scale of values this is better than seeing his D.Sc. on an M.I.T. publication. NRPanikker (talk) 14:24, 5 September 2020 (UTC)


 * They were (and still are) equivalent degrees and the terms are used interchangably at MIT in all engineering departments I've bothered looking up. Some allow the graduate to choose between the two at the time of graduation (people from countries where a D.Sc. is held in higher esteem who plan on returning might choose that for example) where the entirety of the different as far as MIT is concerned is a different colored border on the cap and gown and diploma.  EE is now EECS, with the old EE degree, the Comp Sci degree, and a newer Artificial Intelligence program. A Shortfall Of Gravitas (talk) 03:54, 15 July 2024 (UTC)

Jim Melcher quote
The quote from Jim Melcher is a bit self-serving. Melcher was one of the signatories to anti-SDI petition in the 80s at the height of the cold war, undermining the American security posture. He rode a bicycle everywhere, even in the snow, and was that kind of soft brainiac we all love but a bit naive about John G. Trump.

During the WW2 war effort, John Trump was on the National Defense Research Committee and may have even reported to Vannevar Bush himself. Trump was involved with Nikola Tesla and the other things like the atomic bomb and radar came out of the NDRC. Certainly John Trump wasn't a peacenik, even if Melcher wasn't aware of his work. Melcher was just a baby then, just 5-6 years old when Tesla died and Trump was called in to review the research for military applications.

Trump also worked with Robert Van de Graaff, forming a company with him in the 1950s, and the applications of the generator and Pelletron weren't all peaceful.

Trump was interested in a lot more than sewage and sludge, that much I can tell you. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 98.145.156.109 (talk) 02:46, 24 November 2020 (UTC)