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Milwaukee Native Helps NASA Search for Earth-Size Planets

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Photo Credit: NASA Ames Research Center MOFFETT FIELD, Calif. , -- David Koch, the deputy principal investigator for the NASA Kepler Mission, has spent his life building things. Now he's working on his ultimate dream-job at NASA's Ames Research Center: designing and building the spacecraft of NASA’s Kepler Mission along with a cast of hundreds of other scientists, engineers, programmers and managers. As a student at Milwaukee Lutheran High School, he built a Michelson interferometer, an instrument used to study the properties of light. This interferometer proved to be a stepping-stone for Koch to study physics. Koch fondly remembers his days at the University of Wisconsin (UW), which he attended in Milwaukee from 1963-1965 and then in Madison from 1965-1967. He received a bachelor's degree in Applied Mathematics and Engineering Physics, which is the equivalent to a double major in math and physics plus 20 credits of engineering.

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David Koch

Overall Sentiment: 0.136677

Relevance: 0.885322

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0	"That is when I ended up steering towards astrophysics, and I've never looked back," Koch said. ...
0.0240759	"We stuck to our guns. We knew what we were going to do. We didn't want to add any extra options that could sink our ship. We had one clear singular goal," said Koch.
Sentiment Stats:	Number of Quotes: 2 Aggregate Sentiment: 0.0240759 Mean: 0.01203795 Standard Deviation: 0

Disambiguation: GolferReferences:

• Carin Koch
• Carin Koch: dbpedia
• Carin Koch: freebase
• Carin Koch: umbel
• Carin Koch: yago

Kepler

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Disambiguation: Academic | Astronomer | OperaCharacter | ScientistReferences:

• Johannes Kepler: dbpedia
• Johannes Kepler: freebase
• Johannes Kepler: umbel
• Johannes Kepler: yago

Bill Borucki

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Relevance: 0.202308

Michelson

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Disambiguation: Academic | AwardWinner | MilitaryPerson | ScientistReferences:

• Albert Abraham Michelson: dbpedia
• Albert Abraham Michelson: freebase
• Albert Abraham Michelson: umbel
• Albert Abraham Michelson: yago

Professor Kenneth Greisen

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Relevance: 0.128278

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