My Academic Genealogy - mauriceling/mauriceling.github.io GitHub Wiki

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