# @ucsc on Instagram

- **Type:** Image
- **Original URL:** https://www.instagram.com/p/BeTyaxIFeuo
- **Gondola URL:** https://gondola.cc/posts/20346772-ucsc-instagram
- **Thumbnail:** https://img.gondola.cc/tr:w-,h-,fo-auto/thumbnails/7f67c70f2b.jpg
- **Posted:** 2018-01-23T22:44:12.000+00:00
- **Account Owner:** UC Santa Cruz (@ucsc) — https://gondola.cc/ucsc

## Caption

#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.
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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. 
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#ucsc #ucsantacruz #thinkucsc #sciencematters #sciencenews #astronomy

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thinkucsc, ucsc, ucsantacruz, sciencenews, sciencematters, humansofucsc, astronomy

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