My Academic Genealogy

Here are some of the interesting lineages from myself to some of the greatest minds in scientific history (for fun and entertainment purposes only):

• 6 steps to Thomas Hunt Morgan (the Morgan of centi-Morgans, unit for genetic/linkage distance)
• 7 steps to Jacques L. Monod (the Monod of Monod Equation)
• 8 steps to Salvador E. Luria (the Luria of LB media)
• 9 steps to Karl Pearson (whom introduced histogram and Chi-Square test)
• 10 steps to Charles Darwin
• 10 steps to Ronald A. Fisher (whom formulated ANOVA)
• 10 steps to Carl Friedrich Gauss (whom discovered Normal distribution)
• 10 steps to Siméon Denis Poisson (the French mathematician whom introduced Poisson distribution)
• 10 steps to Alan Mathison Turing (whom formulated Turing Machine)
• 11 steps to Georg Ohm (whom discovered Ohm's law)
• 11 steps to Pierre-Simon Laplace (whom proved Central Limit Theorem)
• 11 steps to Joseph Louis Lagrange (whom method of solving differential equations by variation of parameters)
• 12 steps to Leonhard Euler
• 14 steps to Isaac Newton
• 14 steps to Rene Descartes (whom pioneered the development of Cartesian Geometry)
• 19 steps to Leonardo da Vinci
• 19 steps to Nicolaus Copernicus