Brian May has once again proven why he is rock royalty. Not only is he the Queen guitarist, but he is also an astrophysicist who recently helped NASA return its first ever asteroid sample to Earth.
Nice to see him make good use of his degree. I always thought it was cool that there are two major British bands- Queen and Dare- with Astrophysicists in them.
In October 2006, May re-registered for his doctorate at Imperial College, and he submitted his thesis in August 2007
the revised thesis (titled “A Survey of Radial Velocities in the Zodiacal Dust Cloud”)[1] was approved in September 2007, some 37 years after it had been commenced
In 2020, he participated in the team that contributed the stereography images of numerical simulations of asteroid disruptions and re-accumulations in a publication in the peer-reviewed journal Nature Communications
It actually sounds like he’s pretty busy with the science these days.
the revised thesis (titled “A Survey of Radial Velocities in the Zodiacal Dust Cloud”)[1] was approved in September 2007, some 37 years after it had been commenced
Nice to see him make good use of his degree. I always thought it was cool that there are two major British bands- Queen and Dare- with Astrophysicists in them.
It actually sounds like he’s pretty busy with the science these days.
The king of procrastination
Admittedly, I haven’t been paying close attention to Brian May’s physics career.
Brian Cox was also in d:Ream.
American but E from the eels, his dad came up with the Many Worlds Interpretation
There’s an episode of Nova where E talks about his dad and his tragic life. It’s one of my favorites
There’s actually a BBC doc about it too, which I thought was good:
https://www.eelstheband.com/parallel_worlds.php
I’d hesitate to call Dare “major.”
I mean, they’re not Queen, but they charted.
Would I know any of their songs?
No.
I have no idea. This is the song I think of when I think of Dare. I also have to say, I’m not a big fan of Dare.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DMEGgYNNrCw
Astrophysicist and public science educator Brian Cox is playing keyboards.
Guess not
A cursory search, which I ran before I commented, didn’t reveal that fact for me.
Mere charting isn’t a great measure, though, since plenty of ephemeral trash has done so as well.
it’s simple enough… Dare were major and Queen were positively astronomical, mate…