Can you name a “musisci” – a person involved in both music and science? This was a question I asked over seven hundred people in a survey, and the answer looked like this:
Without the top five answers, you can more clearly see some of the other ones:
As you can see, there are a lot of people who have both music and science in their life, and this includes about a third of survey respondents, as well.
For the full results of the survey, see my blog post on easternblot.net. I’m also starting a quarterly newsletter about the musician/scientist overlap. First issue will go out today (with more survey results, some music, and related links), and the next one in August. You can sign up here if you’d like to receive it.
The Finch and Pea 