[3] Kock's seminal research in artificial dielectrics, carried out at AT&T Bell Laboratories in the 1940s, is a historical connection to metamaterials.

[4] At age four Kock started learning piano, and by high school he could play full recitals.

[5] For his master's degree thesis Kock grappled with the problem of pitch stabilization for 70 neon tubes in an electronic organ.

As part of the thesis, Kock, together with another candidate, developed an improved design for an electronic organ based on the formant principle.

[4] Following his doctoral studies, Kock became the director of electronic research and development at Baldwin Piano Company.

In addition, he conducted analytical studies regarding the response of customized metallic particles to a quasistatic, electromagnetic radiation field.

[1] Following his retirement from Electronics Research Center, he also acted as the Director of Basic and Applied Sciences at his alma mater, University of Cincinnati, where he was also a visiting professor of engineering.

He also researched holography, gamma rays, semiconductors, picture phone and artificial dielectrics.

[19][20] At the Fortieth Meeting of the Acoustical Society of America (November 9, 10, and 11, 1950) [21] Kock, along with a colleague, contributed research results pertaining to "a photographic method using mechanical scanning for displaying the space patterns of sound and microwaves..." : Kock, W. E. (1951).