Olivia Newton-John

Eh? Grandpappy was a Nobel winner?

Newton-John’s mother was the eldest child of Max Born, a German Nobel prize-winning physicist

WTF?

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1 RobtE // Apr 21, 2008 at 6:43 pm

But of course. She paid tribute to him in her 1981 hit, “Let’s get physics-al, physics-al. I wanna get physics-al.”
2 dearieme // Apr 21, 2008 at 6:56 pm

And a proper Nobel at that. None of your mimsy Peace or Literature rubbish, or the bogus Economics prize.
3 RobtE // Apr 21, 2008 at 8:25 pm

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”?
4 David Gillies // Apr 21, 2008 at 8:30 pm

And her father worked at Bletchley Park and was the guy who took Rudolf Hess into custody.
5 David Gillies // Apr 21, 2008 at 8:34 pm

Oh, and to make everyone feel really old, she turns 60 this year.
6 RobtE // Apr 21, 2008 at 9:46 pm

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.”
7 Effing and Blinding // Apr 21, 2008 at 10:29 pm

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…
8 TimT // Apr 22, 2008 at 8:52 am

Not many people know this, but her parents had originally meant her name to be Olivia Neutron John.
9 David Brand // Apr 22, 2008 at 3:47 pm

surely “Olivia Neutron Bomb”
10 gene berman // Apr 22, 2008 at 11:12 pm

Is that David of Brandex?

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