I don’t disbelieve it. If you’re old enough to remember film beauty Hedy Lamarr, you’d know that she was a mathematical genius and published papers and developed schemes that can be likened to technology communication structure today.
She invented spread-spectrum communications technology.
She was also possibly the most beautiful woman ever photographed. She outshines Grace Kelly, in my view.
A single kiss from her raised $10K for war bonds back during WWII, when that amount could purchase a nice house.
Brian May, the lead guitarist for the band Queen, has a PhD in astrophysics which after taking a bit of a break to play some guitar, he finally completed in 2007 and has published several books and papers on the subject and is now the chancellor of Liverpool John Moores University.
That definitely falls in the category of “WOW - I didn’t know that!”