Currently, I have an Erdős–Bacon number of 8, but am hopeful it will be lowered without having to do anything myself! One pathway goes:

The Route to Erdős (5)

  • "Electric charge on grains in diffuse clouds", Taylor, S. D., Williams, D. A.; Bennett, A., Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 248, 148-152 (1991)

  • "The Regulatory and Diagnostic Roles of Chemistry in Low-Mass Star Formation", Hartquist, T. W., Rawlings, J. M. C., Williams, D. A., Dalgarno, A., Quarterly Journal of the Royal Astronomical Society, 34, 213 (1993)

  • "The Equivalence of Variational and Perturbation Calculations of Small Disturbances" A. Dalgarno and J. T. Lewis, Proc. Phys. Soc. A 69 No 8 (1 August 1956) 628-630 [About]

  • "Lp convergence of monotone functions and their uniform convergence", Shisa, Oved and J. T. Lewis, J. Approx. Theory 14 (1975), 281–284.

  • "The closed linear span of {xk-ck}1", Anderson, J.M.; Erdős, Paul; Pinkus, Allan; Shisha, Oved, J. Approx. Theory 43 (1985), 75–80. [About]

The Route to Bacon (3)

I was an extra in "Prime Suspect" (1991) with Helen Mirren. Thanks to the Oracle of Bacon we can trace the path: