Queen star hands in stellar thesis, 30 years late
AFP, August, 2007
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LONDON (AFP) — Queen guitarist Brian May handed in his doctoral thesis on Friday, more than 30 years after first starting the academic dissertation on a highly specialized area of astronomy.
May started the thesis at Imperial College, London, in 1974, but shelved it when his musical career with the band headed by legendary showman Freddie Mercury took off.
He finally returned to it last year, and completed the 48,000-word extended dissertation after dusting off the manuscript left for over three decades in the loft of his Surrey home.
On Friday he handed in the thesis, called "Radial Velocities in the Zodiacal Dust Cloud", to Imperial's head of astrophysics Professor Paul Nandra. Once assessors have read it he faces an oral exam on the work later this month.
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"It's been the longest gap year ever," the 60-year-old musician said, cited by the BBC. "It was a tough ...
