Do you have any really famous scientists in your family in the past, and if you do, what did they invent and why did

Question: Do you have any really famous scientists in your family in the past, and if you do, what did they invent and why did they think it was useful ?
- Keywords:
  family,
  invent,
  past,
  scientist
Asked by EM010 to Anthony, Cathal, Hannah, Jade, Sallie on 6 Mar 2017.
- Sallie Baxendale answered on 6 Mar 2017:
  
  No – there are no famous scientists in my family at all. One of my distant relatives did used to draw cartoons for the Beano though!
- Jade Owen answered on 6 Mar 2017:
  
  No I don’t have any famous scientists in my family.
  In fact – I am the only scientist and the first to go to university and get a PhD!
- Anthony Caravaggi answered on 7 Mar 2017:
  
  There are no famous scientists in my family at all. Like Jade, I’m the first scientist and the first in my family to get a PhD (as far as I know).

Question: Do you have any really famous scientists in your family in the past, and if you do, what did they invent and why did they think it was useful ?