The most thanked man in science

Apparently it is Olivier Danvy:

Danvy, a French researcher who works on programming languages at the University of Aarhus, Denmark, says that at first he was "stunned" to find his name at the top of the list.

But on reflection, he puts it down to "a series of coincidences". He is multidisciplinary, well-travelled, is involved with an international PhD programme, and belongs to a university department that encourages international visitors.

"It's a snowball effect," says Danvy, who admits to being a helpful sort of fellow. "I encourage people a lot, and advise many students on their papers."

Here is the full story; text-mining software was used to compile the results.  Here is Olivier's home page, which lists his six doctoral students as well.  He has, by the way, 15,800 Google entries as of early this morning...