the most thanked man in science is...
Olivier Danvy!  Why an exclamation point?  Because Olivier
was a mentor to me, invited me to Denmark, and served on my 
thesis committee.  He appears in the acknowledgements and bibliographies of several of my papers.  Once more for luck:  thanks Olivier!
Original source:
Nature.
Posted by spot at December 14, 2004 09:11 PM