Academic genealogy

Erdős number

I have an Erdős number of 5. What follows is one possible route from me to Paul Erdős.

• Andy Eyre → James Binney, (example),
• James Binney → Jerry Ostriker, (example),
• Jerry Ostriker → Max Tegmark, (example),
• Max Tegmark → Harold Shapiro, (example),
• Harold Shapiro → Paul Erdős, (example).

Standing on the shoulders of giants

There are a few notable individuals on my academic family tree.

• Andy Eyre was a student of
• James Binney, who was a student of
• Dennis Sciama, who was a student of
• Paul Dirac, winner of the 1933 Nobel Prize in Physics, who was a student of
• Ralph Fowler, who was a student of
• Archibald Hill, winner of the 1922 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine, who was a student of
• Walter Fletcher, who was a student of
• John Langley, who was a student of
• Michael Foster, who was a student of
• Thomas Huxley, who was a student of
• Charles Darwin, who first posited the evolution of species by means of natural selection, and who was a student of
• Adam Sedgewick, who was a student of
• Thomas Jones, who was a student of
• Thomas Postlethwaite, who was a student of
• Stephen Whisson, who was a student of
• Walter Taylor, who was a student of
• Robert Smith, who was a student of
• Roger Cotes, who was a student of
• Isaac Newton, who needs no introduction.

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