[AdmiralAsshat]

Meanwhile Dolph Lundgren has an actual MA in Chemical Engineering. It's a pity we can't get him to do something like this in earnest to teach engineering concepts.

[Guestmodinfo]

From Wikipedia "...Lundgren received a degree in chemical engineering from the KTH Royal Institute of Technology in the early 1980s and a master's degree in chemical engineering from the University of Sydney in 1982...."

Excerpt from https://faroutmagazine.co.uk/remarkable-rise-dolph-lundgren/ "....As a result, he was awarded a full ride to the world-renowned Massachusetts Institute of Technology as a Fulbright Scholar..."

The above Wikipedia article says Dolph quit studying at MIT after two weeks for acting career.

[andrehacker]

Brian May (Queen) has a PhD degree in astrophysics :)

[DrewADesign]

Tom Scholz, the guitarist for Boston with a masters in MechE from MIT, built his own effects, and much of his own recording equipment.

[mek6800d2]

I still remember a very interesting article about him in the Electronic Engineering Times back in 1998: "Boston's Scholz Engineers a Rock Dynasty"

https://web.archive.org/web/19990224204558/http://www.eetime...

"Wherever there's a microprocessor, there's trouble."

[kQq9oHeAz6wLLS]

The story of getting their first album made is epic

[HanClinto]

Link to a recommended write-up?

[kazinator]

The guitars on Def Leppard's Hysteria [1987] were supposedly direct recorded using a Rockman.

[tombert]

Greg Graffin, lead singer for punk rock band Bad Religion, has a PhD in zoology [1] and is a frequent university lecturer.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greg_Graffin

[Cosi1125]

Dexter Holland (The Offspring) has a PhD in molecular biology [1].

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dexter_Holland#Science

[Cthulhu_]

Bruce Dickinson of Iron Maiden is (was?) a fully qualified pilot and flew the band's 747 around the world

[leeoniya]

and Mayim Bialik holds a neuroscience PhD

[master_crab]

And sadly a bit of a loon about vaccines and supplements.

[skopje]

MA is master of art according to google. MSc seems right.

[dmd]

Many (most, in the US; don't know about Sweden or Australia) institutions don't draw a distinction between the two and award MA regardless.

[arethuza]

Some universities simply give you an MA a few years after getting a BA without you having to do anything additional.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Master_of_Arts_(Oxford,_Cambri...

[razakel]

You do have to manage to not go to prison, though.

[skopje]

did not know!