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Eleanor Anne Arroway is a fictional character created by Carl Sagan. In the movie adaptation of Contact, she was born in De Pere, Wisconsin. She graduated from high school almost two years early and was awarded a full scholarship to attend MIT. She then did graduate work at Caltech on the lanthanide-doped ruby maser, dramatically increasing the sensitivity of radio telescopes.

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