Notable physicists with dramatic personal histories

[Loren Booda]

I heard that a son [Erwin] of Max Planck was executed for trying to assassinate Hitler.

What notables have you learned about the "relativity" of physicists?

 

[jedishrfu]

then there Hugh Everett's son whose a rock star and was in a documentary about his Dad.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hugh_Everett_III

and both have wikipedia pages:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mark_Oliver_Everett

 

[Jimmy Snyder]

John Baez is cousin to Joan Baez and Mimi Fariña.

 

[jedishrfu]

Three of Charles Darwin's children went on the become members of the Royal Society as an astronomer, botanist and civil engineer.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_Darwin

 

[zoobyshoe]

Newton's niece was a real looker and very charming. When she moved into his home Newton became a much more popular physicist than he'd ever been before she joined him.

 

[chronon]

Olivia Newton-John is Max Born's granddaughter.

 

[Jimmy Snyder]

Einstein had a cousin, Elsa Löwenthal, who married a famous physicist.

 

[zoobyshoe]

Einstein had a cousin, Elsa Löwenthal, who married a famous physicist.

Feynman's adopted daughter, Michelle, ended up being closely related to a Nobel Prize winner.

 

[Ivan Seeking]

Olivia Newton-John is Max Born's granddaughter.

I just heard about this and was going to make a post. How about that? I looooooved Olivia. It seems fitting.

I guess you could say a star is Born! And now I understand why they named her Newton.

 

[Jimmy Snyder]

If Olivia Newton-John married John Travolta she'd be Olivia Newton-John Travolta.

 

[George Jones]

The physics family that exhibited wave-particle duality: J.J Thompson won a Nobel prize for showing that the electron is a particle; G. P. Thompson, J.J.'s son, won a Nobel prize for showing the electron is a wave.

 

[jtbell]

Niels Bohr's son Aage became a nuclear physicist and won a Nobel Prize.

 

[Ouabache]

The Curie family: Marie and Pierre (both physics Nobel Laureates), their daughter Irene and husband Frederic Joiliot, - Nobel prize in chemistry. Irene's & Frederic's daughter Helene is currently a nuclear physicist at University of Paris. Helene's brother Pierre is a biophysicist. Helene's son Yves is an astrophysicist.

 

[Rooted]

Bragg father and son - they both shared a Nobel I think.