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Bobak Ferdowsi ((ペルシア語:بابک فردوسی)) (born November 7, 1979)〔 is an American systems engineer at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory. He served on the ''Cassini–Huygens'' and Mars Science Laboratory ''Curiosity'' missions. Ferdowsi gained brief media fame in August 2012, when he wore an unusual mohawk hairstyle during the ''Curiosity'' landing. It unexpectedly became an iconic image of the event with coverage in the news and social media, U.S. President Obama even commented on the popularity of "Mohawk Guy". ==Life and career== Ferdowsi was born November 7, 1979, in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. He is of Persian descent; his father immigrated to the United States from Iran. His parents met in college. Soon after birth he moved to the San Francisco Bay Area where he stayed until age 11, then moved to Tokyo in 1991, where he attended the American School in Japan, graduating in 1997.〔 The same year, he enrolled at the University of Washington where he majored in aerospace engineering, a childhood dream.〔 While there he did research under Nobel Laureate Hans Georg Dehmelt in the Department of Physics.〔 In 2001, he enrolled at MIT and joined the Lean Aerospace Initiative where he stayed until 2003.〔〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Bobak Ferdowsi )〕 Ferdowsi joined JPL in late 2003, and worked on the Mars Science Laboratory mission through its successful landing nearly nine years later on August 6, 2012. He was also Science Planner on the ''Cassini–Huygens'' mission.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Bobak Ferdowsi: Science Planner Engineer ) See also (YouTube version ).〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Bobak Ferdowsi」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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