Eh? Grandpappy was a Nobel winner?
Newton-John\’s mother was the eldest child of Max Born, a German Nobel prize-winning physicist
WTF?
Eh? Grandpappy was a Nobel winner?
Newton-John\’s mother was the eldest child of Max Born, a German Nobel prize-winning physicist
WTF?
But of course. She paid tribute to him in her 1981 hit, “Let’s get physics-al, physics-al. I wanna get physics-al.”
And a proper Nobel at that. None of your mimsy Peace or Literature rubbish, or the bogus Economics prize.
But of course. She even sang a tribute to him. Don’t you remember her 1981 hit, “Let’s get physics-al, physics-al. I wanna get physics-al”?
And her father worked at Bletchley Park and was the guy who took Rudolf Hess into custody.
Oh, and to make everyone feel really old, she turns 60 this year.
But of course. Do you not remember the 1981 tribute she sang to her grandfather? “Let’s get physics-al, physics-al. I wanna get physics-al.”
I recall reading that when she was living in Cambridge as a small child, Einstein was a regular visitor to the house. An unlikely meeting of 2 celebrities at different ends of their lives…
Not many people know this, but her parents had originally meant her name to be Olivia Neutron John.
surely “Olivia Neutron Bomb”
Is that David of Brandex?