I don't mean to nitpick, Tom, but is this really your plan?

Excluding my father on nepotism grounds, (1) my friend Steve Burt, a poet who happens to know organic chemistry, (2) Dan Markovitz, Yale law, (3) Richard Primus, Michigan law (may be moving), and (4) my friend Nascent from XF days, who writes novels and does microbiology with the same ease. This is not in order. My definition of smartest depends heavily on the ability to figure out good questions to ask about any theory or argument even outside one's field.