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]

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

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]

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

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

 

[Gokul43201]

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

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

 

[zoobyshoe]

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

And she owns Seabiscuit?

 

[Gokul43201]

And she owns Seabiscuit?

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

 

[Math Is Hard]

pronounced Ein-SHTEEN, of course.

 

[zoobyshoe]

pronounced Ein-SHTEEN, of course.

Yes!

......

 

[zoobyshoe]

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

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]

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

[picture]

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

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

 

[DeadWolfe]

Dirichlet was married to Mendelssohn's sister.

I guess he's not exactly a physicist though.

 

[zoobyshoe]

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

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.

 

[zoobyshoe]

Um, zoobyshoe, Seabiscuit died before ONJ was born.

A fact from which I deduce you, yourself, are not ONJ's noble steed, Seabiscuit, but a poseur.

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

That's obvious. What's not obvious is how anyone can deduce a relationship to any physicist other than Newton from the name Olivia Newton John.

I still have no idea where the horse comes in.

 

[Gokul43201]

Guess you've never heard the ballad for ONJ's steed, composed by that charismatic yodeler, Blues Steelspring - I think it was called "Born to run"...

 

[zoobyshoe]

Guess you've never heard the ballad for ONJ's steed, composed by that charismatic yodeler, Blues Steelspring - I think it was called "Born to run"...

I'm familiar with most of his stuff. Didn't he write "Little Weird, Purple Houses"? Or was that John Cootie Mellonhead?

Anyway, maybe she changed it to Newton after realizing Olivia Born John was too suggestive of sex change surgery.

 

[Gokul43201]

Yeah, Purple Houses was a Mellonhead original...but I was more fond of that pioneering piece, Jack was Diane. Good heartland American values there...they should teach this stuff to little kids in school, rather than those horrendous nursery rhymes - all full of sex and violence.