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Is he doing it in conjunction with d-Ream drummer and astrophysicist Brian Cox? Are there any other famous scientist/musicians called Brian?
by midasuni 3y ago
Is he doing it in conjunction with d-Ream drummer and astrophysicist Brian Cox?
Are there any other famous scientist/musicians called Brian?
- jmkb 3y agoBrian Eno developed tape-delay audio tech, released a few mobile apps, is a founder of the Long Now Foundation... not a scientist but definitely a bit science-y.
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- foobarbecue 3y agoDude is in all the crosswords like every week
- yoz 3y agoDo you mean FATHER Brian Eno? https://youtu.be/vQ00zZbfxd4 https://youtu.be/vQ00zZbfxd4
- Barrin92 3y agoNot a Brian, although there's one in the band, but Bad Religion's Greg Graffin has a PhD in zoology from Cornell. Might be the most credentialed punk rock singer.
- smogcutter 3y agoDexter from the Offspring is a molecular bio PhD from USC
- sdenton4 3y agoBernie Krause was originally a musician, but then got a PhD in bioacoustics and is now much better known for that work https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bernie_Krause https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bernie_Krause
- shaunxcode 3y agoDan Yemin of Kid Dynamite and Paint it Black has a doctorate in psychology!
- devnullbrain 3y agoBrian Cox was a keyboardist
- benzible 3y agoAlso not Brian, and maybe not exactly a scientist, but Jeff "Skunk" Baxter of Steely Dan & the Doobie Brothers has a second career as a consultant on missile defense systems: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jeff_Baxter#Defense_consulting_career https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jeff_Baxter#Defense_consulting...
- yoz 3y agoKelley Deal of The Breeders and R Ring spent many years as a program analyst at a defense contractor: https://www.vice.com/en/article/rm9g3r/the-breeders-kelley-deal-doesnt-believe-in-rock-stars https://www.vice.com/en/article/rm9g3r/the-breeders-kelley-d...
- yoz 3y agoYet another not-Brian, but definitely my favourite one of these: James Williamson got an electronics engineering degree in 1982. He immediately joined AMD where he worked for 15 years on tooling around chip design. In 1997, Sony hired him as their Vice President of Technical Standards, where he did such good work that he later won ANSI’s Standards Leadership Award. He stayed in the role for twelve years before accepting an early retirement buyout. But he was only sixty years old and didn’t feel like retiring. Instead, he went back to his pre-degree job: playing lead guitar for Iggy Pop and the Stooges. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Williamson_(musician) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Williamson_(musician)
- jwestbury 3y agoLess famous, but Brian Wecht, aka Ninja Brian from Ninja Sex Party, is also a theoretical physicist, though he's retired from academia.