Collaboration Distances

A continuously scrolling list of notable scientists and my collaboration distances. Hover to pause; respects reduced‑motion.


Albert Einstein (Nobel Prize 1921):
My Einstein number is 5.
Barry Barish (Nobel Prize 2017):
My Barish number is 5.
Hans Bethe (Nobel Prize 1967):
My Bethe number is 6.
Max Born (Nobel Prize 1954):
My Born number is 7.
Enrico Fermi (Nobel Prize 1938):
My Fermi number is 5.
William Fowler (Nobel Prize 1983):
My Fowler number is 8.
Murray Gell-Mann (Nobel Prize 1969):
My Gell-Mann number is 5.
Werner Heisenberg (Nobel Prize 1932):
My Heisenberg number is 6.
Makoto Kobayashi (Nobel Prize 2008):
My Kobayashi number is 7.
Leon Lederman (Nobel Prize 1988, Wolf Prize 1982):
My Lederman number is 7.
Yôichirô Nambu [南部 陽一郎] (Nobel Prize 2008, Wolf Prize 1994/1995):
My Nambu number is 7.
Erwin Schrödinger (Nobel Prize 1933):
My Schrödinger number is 7.
Julian Schwinger (Nobel Prize 1965):
My Schwinger number is 7.
Manjul Bhargava (Fields Medal 2014):
My Bhargava number is 5.
Terence Tao (Fields Medal 2006):
My Tao number is 5.
Cédric Villani (Fields Medal 2010):
My Villani number is 6.
Michael Berry (Wolf Prize 1998):
My Berry number is 6.
Robert Brout (Wolf Prize 2004):
My Brout number is 6.
Freeman Dyson (Wolf Prize 1981; Templeton Prize 2000):
My Dyson number is 6.
Peter Sarnak (Wolf Prize 2014):
My Sarnak number is 5.
Dennis Sullivan (Wolf Prize 2010):
My Sullivan number is 6.
Jacques Tits (Wolf Prize 1993):
My Tits number is 6.
George Uhlenbeck (Wolf Prize 1979):
My Uhlenbeck number is 6.
Simon Donaldson (Wolf Prize 2020):
My Donaldson number is 6.
Bernard d'Espagnat (Templeton Prize 2009):
My d'Espagnat number is 8.
Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar (Nobel Prize 1983):
My Chandrasekhar number is 6.
Paul Dirac (Nobel Prize 1933):
My Dirac number is 8.
François Englert (Nobel Prize 2013, Wolf Prize 2004):
My Englert number is 6.
Richard Feynman (Nobel Prize 1965):
My Feynman number is 7.
Sheldon Glashow (Nobel Prize 1979):
My Glashow number is 6.
David Gross (Nobel Prize 2004):
My Gross number is 6.
Giorgio Parisi (Nobel Prize 2021):
My Parisi number is 5.
Abdus Salam (Nobel Prize 1979):
My Salam number is 7.
Kip Thorne (Nobel Prize 2017):
My Thorne number is 7.
Steven Weinberg (Nobel Prize 1979):
My Weinberg number is 6.
Eugene Wigner (Nobel Prize 1963):
My Wigner number is 6.
Frank Wilczek (Nobel Prize 2004; Templeton Prize 2022):
My Wilczek number is 6.
Chen Ning Yang (Nobel Prize 1957):
My Yang number is 6.
Michael Atiyah (Fields Medal 1966):
My Atiyah number is 6.
Efim Isaakovich Zel'manov [Ефи́м Исаа́кович Зе́льманов] (Fields Medal 1994):
My Zel'manov number is 5.
Ed Witten (Fields Medal 1990):
My Witten number is 5.
Michael Aschbacher (Wolf Prize 2012):
My Aschbacher number is 4.
Izrail' Gel'fand [Изра́иль Гельфа́нд] (Wolf Prize 1978):
My Gel'fand number is 6.
Paul Erdős (Wolf Prize 1983/1984):
My Erdős number is 5.
Richard Schoen (Wolf Prize 2017):
My Schoen number is 5.
Jacob Bekenstein (Wolf Prize 2012):
My Bekenstein number is 6.
Shing-Tung Yau [丘成桐] (Wolf Prize 2010):
My Yau number is 5.
John Polkinghorne (Templeton Prize 2002):
My Polkinghorne number is 6.
Marcelo Gleiser (Templeton Prize 2019):
My Gleiser number is 6.
Roger Penrose (Nobel Prize 2020, Wolf Prize 1988):
My Penrose number is 6.
Martinus Veltman (Nobel Prize 1999):
My Veltman number is 8.
Stephen Hawking (Wolf Prize 1988):
My Hawking number is 6.
John Wheeler (Wolf Prize 1997):
My Wheeler number is 6.
John Barrow (Templeton Prize 2006):
My Barrow number is 7.
Paul Davies (Templeton Prize 1995):
My Davies number is 7.
George Ellis (Templeton Prize 2004):
My Ellis number is 7.
Gerard 't Hooft (Nobel Prize 1999, Wolf Prize 1981):
My 't Hooft number is 7.