#HumansofUCSC ⭐️☄️🔭 Meet UC Santa Cruz graduate student David Coulter, a self-taught programmer who left his industry job to obtain a graduate degree in astronomy and astrophysics and ended up becoming part of the team who made one of the greatest scientific discoveries of our lifetime. _____ Coulter was part of the team that observed gravitational waves through a neutron star merger. Both sciencemagazine and Physics World hailed it as the scientific breakthrough of the year. ________ #ucsc #ucsantacruz #thinkucsc #sciencematters #sciencenews #astronomy