Brian May из Queen пишет научные работы.

С детства обожаю группу Куин. Поэтому всегда радуюсь успехам Брайана Мэя, гитариста и астрофизика. Хорошая статья об этом опубликована на http://blog.wired.com/wiredscience/2008/08/queen-guitarist.html:

The PhD thesis of Brian May, founder and guitarist of Queen, has just been published.

May started his research into Zodiacal Light -- the triangular glow visible after sunset in the West and before sunrise in the East -- in 1970, then took a 30-year rock star break. He finished it in 2007 at Imperial College London.

Entitled A Survey of Radial Velocities in the Zodiacal Dust Cloud, May's thesis, as described by academic publishing house Springer, is not a "popular astronomy book," but "a rigorous, academic examination of the Zodiacal Light [that] documents the building of a pressure-scanned Fabry-Perot Spectrometer, equipped with a photomultiplier and pulse-counting electronics, and its deployment at the Observatorio del Teide at Izaña in Tenerife."

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