Is he doing it in conjunction with d-Ream drummer and astrophysicist Brian Cox?
Are there any other famous scientist/musicians called Brian?
Are there any other famous scientist/musicians called Brian?
James Williamson got an electronics engineering degree in 1982. He immediately joined AMD where he worked for 15 years on tooling around chip design.
In 1997, Sony hired him as their Vice President of Technical Standards, where he did such good work that he later won ANSI’s Standards Leadership Award. He stayed in the role for twelve years before accepting an early retirement buyout.
But he was only sixty years old and didn’t feel like retiring. Instead, he went back to his pre-degree job: playing lead guitar for Iggy Pop and the Stooges.