Editing Paul Bennewitz (section)

== Education & Career ==
He earned a PhD in physics, but had no formal training in electronics.<ref>https://www.newspapers.com/image/784661129</ref> During World War II, Bennewitz was a radio electronics engineer for the Coast Guard.<ref>https://www.newspapers.com/image/323737197/</ref> He worked as an engineer for San Francisco CBS station KPIX, and KPHO in Tucson.<ref>https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_Bennewitz#cite_note-auto5-6</ref>

Sometime in 1953, Bennewitz moved to New Mexico and started working for Gulton Industries, doing sales; Bennewitz later began his own industrial sales company. Later, in 1966, Bennewitz acquired the rights to a humidity sensor from Sandia National Laboratories. He founded Thunder Scientific, a small family business, with wife Cindy serving as bookkeeper.<ref>https://www.newspapers.com/image/784661129</ref>