<sod>Quirk is the only rocket engineer to serve in the California legislature.<ref>http://blogs.sacbee.com/capitol-alert-insider-edition/2013/08/freshman-facts-bill-quirk-rocket-scientist.html</ref> He has a Ph.D. in [[astrophysics]] from [[Columbia University]] (1970).<eod>
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