http://charlie-meadows.livejournal.com/ ([identity profile] charlie-meadows.livejournal.com) wrote in [personal profile] beamjockey 2011-07-12 04:20 pm (UTC)

The one I know of is Hale Bradt, X-ray astronomer, who majored in music as an undergraduate at Princeton [ http://web.mit.edu/physics/giving/profiles/bradt.html ].

But he made the jump in 1955. About a generation later, it would be close to unimaginable for an arts major to get into a graduate program in physics or astronomy...


I believe at least a couple of the better-known physicists of the late-19th and early-20th Century were accomplished "classical" pianists (I want to say Planck and Born, but I'd need to check my memory on this).

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