Olivia Newton-John's Grandfather Was Nobel-Winning Physicist Max Born

I had not known that!

Thanks to the Quantum Bullshit Detector for the tip. Max Born was a big man in quantum mechanics (among other matters), and some credit him with coining the term "quantum mechanics."

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[Á àß äẞç ãþÇđ âÞ¢Đæ ǎB€Ðëf ảhf]

Somehow appropriate to have a hyphenated name. I wonder what kind of observation would shake out one or the other?

[Krayt]

"Somehow appropriate to have a hyphenated name." -- Á àß äẞç ãþÇđ âÞ¢Đæ ǎB€Ðëf ảhf

[Brett Bellmore]

Interesting. Sad to see why she's in the news now; Dying of stage 4 breast cancer.

[Unicorn Abattoir]

Nobel Prize winning physicist? Can he explain Xanadu?

[Dilan Esper]

Maybe that explains her old nickname, Olivia Neutron Bomb.

[ToddR]

It shall remain a mystery. But that Xanadu music video with Andy Gibb, that can be explained as a damned train wreck.

[Smooth Like a Rhapsody]

"He was a physicist, physicist
Gramps was a physicist
Expert on the nucleus,
Helped them with the atom bomb, the atom bomb..."

[santamonica811]

Heh.

[Eddy]

True story: Sir Isaac Newton had a fling with a serving wench, and their lineal descendant was MCA of the Beastie Boys.

[Brett Bellmore]

You see this all the time. It's like there's a small fraction of the population who are actual protagonists in history, and the rest of us are just extras.

[Eddy]

Just to be clear, I was putting out some fake news. As far as I know it's fake, anyway.

[Eddy]

(I'd better clarify that before Snopes makes a big deal of it.)

[Brett Bellmore]

Thanks for the clarification.

Snopes wouldn't make a big deal of it, it doesn't make Democrats look bad.

[Smooth Like a Rhapsody]

And I've heard that most white people alive today are related to (I think) Charlemagne.

[Á àß äẞç ãþÇđ âÞ¢Đæ ǎB€Ðëf ảhf]

Wikipedia says something like 10% of USians are related to Mayflower illegal immigrants.

[Eddy]

They were religious refugees who posed no threat to the indigenous culture.

[Careless]

You have about a quadrillion ancestors at that level of your family tree, so if he has any living descendants, it's going to be a hell of a lot.

[Doug Huffman]

And John Carlos Baez is cousin to Joan Chandon Baez.

[Stephen Lathrop]

Not far from Boston, MA is the little coastal town of Squantum, MA. A business which does not exist there, but ought to, would be a car repair place called, Squantum Mechanics.