Brian May is probably one of the few times that playing in a band qualifies as a decent excuse for putting off school.
Brian May, the guitarist and founding member of the legendary rock band Queen, earned his PhD in astronomy last year from Imperial College London. His PhD thesis A Survey of Radial Velocities in the Zodiacal Dust Cloud has just been co-published by Springer and Canopus Publishing Ltd.
[From Brian May, guitarist for rock band Queen, completes Ph.D. thesis following 30-year hiatus]
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