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Alex Kaplan, who had majored in physics at Princeton University, found out about LK-99 on Hacker News, a news aggregation website.

From New York Times • Aug. 3, 2023

These are the questions that make me wish I had majored in art history.

From Slate • Feb. 11, 2022

Brezine, a weaver, had majored in theoretical math at Reed College.

From Science Magazine • Jun. 5, 2020

Grace D. Banker, a 25-year-old Columbia University graduate who had majored in French and history, led the first unit of so-called Hello Girls.

From Washington Post • Mar. 4, 2019

He had graduated from Lincoln University in Missouri, where he had majored in science, with an interest in biology.

From "Reaching for the Moon" by Katherine Johnson