Bobak Ferdowsi, Date of Birth, Place of Birth

Bobak Ferdowsi

NASA project lead

Date of Birth: 07-Nov-1979

Place of Birth: Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States

Profession: engineer, aerospace engineer

Nationality: United States

Zodiac Sign: Scorpio

Social Profiles:

tweetsoutloud

Bobak Ferdowsi (Persian: ???? ???????, pronounced ['ba?bæk fe?do?si?]; 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 a mohawk hairstyle, uncharacteristic of engineers, 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".