Erdos Number

I was reading this book on Paul Erdos called "The Man Who Only Loved Numbers." This book was quite entertaining, and is about the least mathematically intensive book ever written. Although it might be somewhat annoying to have to read in a book what prime numbers are (don't people learn that in grade school? The equivalent would be if a biography of, say, Napoleon, would explain that Europe is a continent located in such and such a place), it does a decent job of seeming like the problems that fascinated Erdos were actually fascinating, which should be the first task of a book like this.

One thing I got out of reading some of the book, and some of "Genius" which is a biography of Feynman, is how much the heroes of the scientific world go in for self-mythologizing and for vanity. There was a quote in "The Man Who Only Loved Numbers" from a mathematician declaring "I'd rather a mathematical law not be discovered than I not be the one who discovers it." Another facet of this is the revelation that Feynman spent a considerable amount of his time honing anecdotes about himself so that he would seem cooler. Which brings me to Erdos Numbers. The best I can come up with is 7. Which is good, because the longer it is, the more interesting, right?

Paul Erdos (whom everyone knows and loves)
Daniel Kleitman (whose claim to fame is working on Good Will Hunting and thus being only two degrees away from Kevin Bacon)
Wendell Hinkle Furry (whose claim to fame, apart from an awesome name, is being the target of McCarthyist trials while a professor at Harvard)
Norman F. Ramsey (whose claim to fame is coming up with the spectroscopy method named after him, winning a Nobel prize, and being great at explaining things)
Irving Ozier (whose claim to fame is usually wearing his fishing panama hat to work, and always attending seminars, both while being retired)
W. Leo Meerts (whose claim to fame is seeming somewhat important while once chairing a meeting of the AMO branch of the Dutch Physics Society I went to)
Wim Ubachs (whose claim to fame is heading the Laser Centre at the VU, and thus publishing a bunch of papers on alpha variation)
Me (whose claim to fame is, well, nothing, actually)