ORGLIST:Does organic chemistry have an Erdos number?

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From: Rzepa, Henry (h.rzepa$##$imperial.ac.uk)
Date: Fri May 16 2003 - 08:27:18 EDT

Mathematicians have the Erdos number;
http://www.oakland.edu/~grossman/erdoshp.html

being how directly connected you are in terms of publication to
Paul Erdos. He was itinerant, and apparently published with around
1000 co-authors in his lifetime. Nevertheless, a number of 1 is quite
an honour!

 It may be expected that chemistry
is not quite like that. Still, the thought did strike me that chemistry
 may have other numbers; how many
Nobel prize winners might one have co-authored with for example.
Does anyone know if such (in reality pointless ) statistics might
ever have been attempted? A value of 3 would be quite something. 

-- 

Henry Rzepa. 
+44 (0870) 132 3747 (eFax) 
 http://www.ch.ic.ac.uk/rzepa/ Dept. Chemistry, Imperial College London, SW7  2AZ, UK. 

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