Very interesting article! I too have noticed this phenomenon. Feynman was noted for playing bongo drums. And it's worth pointing out that Edward Witten (gene

Very interesting article! I too have noticed this phenomenon. Feynman was noted for playing bongo drums. And it's worth pointing out that Edward Witten (generally considered to be the smartest living physicist by other physicists) started out with a BA in history and a minor in linguistics. He wrote magazine articles, worked for a presidential campaign, tried economics for a while, switched to applied math, and then finally gave theoretical physics a shot, at which point he made numerous contributions to string theory, quantum gravity, and quantum field theory. He's also the only physicist to win the Fields Medal.