UNIVERSITY PARK, Pa., Sept. 28 -- Pennsylvania State University issued the following news release:
UNIVERSITY PARK, Pa. - In 2026, Penn State celebrates the centennial anniversary of awarding its first doctoral degree - a degree in physics - to Marsh White. He was a student in the then-School of Chemistry and Physics at the Pennsylvania State College, known today as the Department of Physics in the Penn State Eberly College of Science.
For his doctoral research, White set out to disprove Einstein's theory of relativity. He didn't accomplish that, but he did earn the first doctoral degree from Penn State, paving the way for many other brilliant scientists to receive graduate education.
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