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Sep 16, 1961 62 years old
American physicist
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About Matthew Koss
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- Koss (born September 16, 1961 in Boston, Massachusetts) is a widely published solid state physicist. He received his AB degree from Vassar College in 1983 and a Ph.D.
- in Experimental Condensed Matter Physics from Tufts University in 1989. From 1990 to 2000 he worked at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute as the Lead Scientist for the Isothermal Dendritic Growth Experiment (IDGE), a basic microgravity research project on dendritic solidification that conducted Space Shuttle flight experiments on STS-62, -75, and -87. He is currently the Principal Investigator of the Transient Dendritic Solidification Experiment (TDSE) [1], a flight experiment being prepared for operations on the International Space Station in 2006. In June 2003, Koss created a controversy by authoring an Op Ed article in the New York Times claiming that scientists bore partial responsibility for the space shuttle Columbia disaster.
- He argued that most micro-gravity scientific experiments did not require manned space missions, but were used to sell the space program.
- The article drew widespread attention, and resulted in congressional hearings at which Koss appeared.
