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Brian May, Rock Legend, Publishes His Thesis

Posted by kdawson on from the eyes-just-like-a-laser-beam dept.

A year ago we took note when Brian May, guitarist for Queen for the last 30 years, submitted his thesis for a Ph.D. in astrophysics. The news now is that the thesis has been published. You, too, can read all about the population of tiny asteroids and space dust that cause the Zodiacal light. The completed thesis appears as the book "A Survey of Radial Velocities in the Zodiacal Dust Cloud" (Springer and Canopus Publishing Ltd., 2008), available at Amazon for $71.96. May was awarded his Ph.D. last summer and accepted a position as chancellor at a British university in November.

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  1. Good for him by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Sure beats getting coked out and dying in a gutter like some other rock legends.

  2. Re:Beyond impressed by rob1980 · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Peart is a fantastic writer. If he put out a thesis in anything I'd take a look just because it'll be an interesting read.

  3. Rock legend becoming a PhD? by exp(pi*sqrt(163)) · · Score: 3, Insightful
    That's not news. PhD's are ten a penny and I see no reason to assume that rock legends are less intelligent than the rest of us. It's like those news stories that make a big deal of educated women. "And she has a degree in Mathematics - ooh, aah!"

    Now a PhD becoming a rock legend on the other hand. That would be news! Becoming a rock legend is not an ordinary everyday occurrence.

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