Note: A few savvy local rocket scientist from the Rocket City have transitioned to Wall Street realizing it is a gold mine for employment and pay. The early adopters with a strong mathematics skill-set as well as financial trading skills have found a home among fellow quants. They were once known as rocket scientist on Wall Street. When you sprinkle programming and code writing skills on the mix you now have a quant.

Quants: The Rocket Scientists of Wall Street

Article Excerpt: "...Clearly, "the right stuff" is required to be a quantitative analyst. It requires both the intellectual ability to master complex and abstract mathematical domains and a willingness to tackle challenges that can seem insurmountable, all under considerable pressure. It is something that only a select few are capable of. But that also doesn't mean that everyone who has the ability to be a quant should become one. The financial..."

Reference: www.investopedia.com

Hermann Koelle, the Most Important German Rocket Scientist You’ve Probably Never Heard Of

Article Excerpt: "... Yet one of the most essential German members of the Saturn team—Heinz-Hermann Koelle—didn’t arrive with the original group captured by U.S. agents in 1945. He joined them in Huntsville, Alabama, almost a decade later, when work on the first American rockets was already well under way. That may account for the fact that very few people remember his name today ..."

Reference: www.airspacemag.com

Breeding Rocket Scientists in the Rocket City

How Huntsville Breeds Rocket Scientists

Article Excerpt: "...Tim Pickens is the kind of guy that gives Huntsville its nickname: Rocket City. The name was there before he was, derived from the city’s high concentration of NASA and military space projects. But Pickens’ decades of involvement in the city’s space industry ..."

Reference: www.theatlanticcities.com