华莱士·约翰·埃克特1902年6月19日生于美国宾夕法尼亚州匹兹堡。他的青少年时代是在宾夕法尼亚洲阿尔比昂(Albion)农场度过的。1925年,23岁的埃克特初露头角,获得了奥伯林(Oberlin)大学文学士学位。1926年又在阿默斯特获得文科硕士学位。同年,他应聘任哥伦比亚大学天文学系助教。从此,他开始对天文学进行了广泛深入的研究,一步步踏上成名之路。 Wallace John Eckert was born on June 19, 1902 in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. His youth was spent on a farm in Albion, Pennsylvania. In 1925, 23-year-old Ector teeted on a degree from the University of Oberlin. In 1926 he received a master’s degree in arts from Amherst. In the same year, he should hire a teaching assistant at the Department of Astronomy, Columbia University. Since then, he began a wide range of in-depth study of astronomy, step by step embark on the road to fame.