Famous physicists related to famous entertainers

ONJ's Noble Steed

Are there any examples (besides the obvious one) of a famous physicist who was a blood relative of a famous entertainer?

zoobyshoe

The "obvious" one isn't obvious to me. Who are you talking about?

brewnog

What about Walter Heisenberg, whose stepmum was Julia Roberts' auntie Mabel?

Or John Cleese, whose daughter married Robert Oppenheimer's little sister's granddaughter Mary?

Gokul43201

Does Ada Lovelace, daughter of Lord Byron, count ?

ONJ's Noble Steed

Um, the one you might have been able to guess from my screen name. Doesn't ring any bells?

By the way, the ones people gave (were some of those just jokes?) are absolutely ridiculous compared to the one which I said is obvious. Two of those three aren't even blood relatives. Although the last one is pretty interesting. I think I've heard of her at one time or another, but I didn't know she was Lord Byron's daughter.

I probably should have phrased the question more broadly, to include mathematicians and other scientists.

zoobyshoe

I don't get it. You're saying Alfred Nobel was related to Seabiscuit?

Gokul43201

Zoob, Olivia Newton John is Max Born's grandkid.

zoobyshoe

And she owns Seabiscuit?

Gokul43201

No, but she once had a thing with the Black Stallion, and once she went black...

zoobyshoe

Speaking of famous black sheep, looks who's third cousin twice removed I discovered moonlighting as a biographer:

(This is an authentic scan of an actual book! Not photoshopped.)

Math Is Hard

pronounced Ein-SHTEEN, of course.

zoobyshoe

Yes!!!

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zoobyshoe

Anyway, you meant to say she's Newton's grandkid didn't you? I mean her name's not Olivia Born John, is it?

Gokul43201

Alfred ! Ha, a writer, eh...who's gonna fall for that one ?!

DeadWolfe

Dirichlet was married to Mendelssohn's sister.

I guess he's not exactly a physicist though.

zoobyshoe

What? Oh, you're right! I thought from the cover Mozart's third cousin twice removed had written a biography of Alfred, but the book does seem to be about Mozart.

ONJ's Noble Steed

Um, zoobyshoe, Seabiscuit died before ONJ was born. Isaac Newton's grandkids (if he had any) would have also died long before she was born.