I don’t think that’s true at all. Sure, some folks have outsized impact, but that doesn’t mean that,e.g., only Turing Award winners are have contributed to comp

I don’t think that’s true at all. Sure, some folks have outsized impact, but that doesn’t mean that,e.g., only Turing Award winners are have contributed to computer science. In fact, an outsized percentage of work put into projects led by these research “celebrities” is done by oft-forgotten grad students. Also, the article literally shows the opposite: these lineages contain many illustrious mathematicians, and it does them a disservice to classify them all as, e.g., “gauss’s line”