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- Jim Dykstra
- This woman is a true Savant. It figures that someone whose last name literally means "a learned person, especially a distinguished scientist" would be one of the world's brightest.
- Chris Hirata is one of the smartest living people on the planet. Chris Hirata could've had a starring role in Baby Geniuses. By the time he was a preteen, he had a feature-length profile in the Chicago Tribune detailing his virtuosic abilities.
- Judit Polgar pulverized the competition. Judit Polgar has an IQ of 170, and she and her sisters were homeschooled by their father in an experimental curriculum that used chess as the central foundation.
- Kim Ung-yong was the original child prodigy. Kim Ung-yong is a classic genius case of starting ... "yong." Just how young was he when he began his reign of mental supremacy?
- Paul Allen
- Christopher Langan
- Judit Polgár
- Marilyn Vos Savant
- John H. Sununu
- Neil deGrasse Tyson
- Kim Ung-Yong
- Mislav Predavec
- Manahel Thabet
- Richard Rosner
Billionaire Paul Allen reportedly has an IQ of between 160 and 170. Allen was born in 1953 in Seattle and made friends with Bill Gates while still at school. He attended Washington State University but quit his studies in 1974 and then talked Gates into leaving Harvard. The following year, the pair founded Microsoft in New Mexico. After he was told...
Born in San Francisco in 1952, self-educated Christopher Langan is a special kind of genius. By the time he turned four, he’d already taught himself how to read. At high school, according to Langan, he tutored himself in “advanced math, physics, philosophy, Latin and Greek, all that.” What’s more, he allegedly got 100 percent on his SAT test, even ...
Born in Budapest, Hungary in 1976, Judit Polgár is acknowledged as without doubt the best female chess player in history. Polgár was a chess-playing child prodigy and overcame her first grandmaster when she was just 11. At present, she is the only woman in the World Chess Federation’s Top 100 Players. She has also beaten nine world champions, inclu...
Marilyn vos Savant was born in 1946 in Missouri. In 1986 the columnist and author made history when she was named in The Guinness Book of World Records as the person possessing the highest IQ, with a reported score of 228. She is said to have achieved the score on the Stanford-Binet test at the age of ten. In the mid 1980s, Savant also took the con...
With a reported IQ of 180, John H. Sununu is another individual who has proved equal to the eligibility criteria for acceptance into the Mega Society high IQ club. Born in 1939 in Havana, Cuba, Sununu studied mechanical engineering at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, achieving his bachelor’s degree in 1961, his master’s in 1963 and his Ph...
Neil deGrasse Tyson is a high-profile American astrophysicist and research associate at the American Museum of Natural History, and he is also Frederick P. Rose Director of the Hayden Planetarium in New York City. Tyson was born in New York in 1958 and loved astronomy from a young age. In 1980 he graduated from Harvard with a bachelor’s degree in p...
Before The Guinness Book of World Recordswithdrew its Highest IQ category in 1990, South Korean former child prodigy Kim Ung-Yong made the list with a score of 210. Kim was born in Seoul in 1963, and by the time he turned three, he could already read Korean, Japanese, English and German. When he was just eight years old, Kim moved to America to wor...
Mislav Predavec is a Croatian mathematics professor with a reported IQ of 190. “I always felt I was a step ahead of others. As material in school increased, I just solved the problems faster and better,” he has explained. Predavec was born in Zagreb in 1967, and his unique abilities were obvious from a young age. As for his adult achievements, sinc...
In 2008, aged 25, Yemeni economist and scientist Manahel Thabet became the youngest person to receive a financial engineering Ph.D. magna cum laude. Thabet earned the degree at the University of Illinois and has since worked towards a second Ph.D. in quantum mathematics. In 2012 she came up with a revolutionary 350-page formula to calculate distanc...
U.S. television writer and pseudo-celebrity Richard Rosner is an unusual case. Born in 1960, he has led a somewhat checkered professional life: as well writing for Jimmy Kimmel Live! and other TV shows, Rosner has, he says, been employed as a stripper, doorman, male model and waiter. In 2000 he infamously appeared on Who Wants to Be a Millionaire?,...
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- Alain Aspect. French physicist Alain Aspect, who was born on June 15, 1947, is renowned for his work on quantum entanglement. Together with John Clauser and Anton Zeilinger, Aspect received the 2022 Nobel Prize in Physics “for experiments with entangled photons, showing the violation.
- Anthony Fauci. Anthony Stephen Fauci, an American physician-scientist and immunologist born on December 24, 1940, held the positions of chief medical advisor to the president from 2021 to 2022 as well as director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID) from 1984 to 2022.
- Margaret J. Geller. American astrophysicist Margaret J. Geller, born on December 8, 1947, works at the Center for Astrophysics | Harvard & Smithsonian.
- Alan Guth. Alan Harvey Guth is an American theoretical physicist and cosmologist who was born on February 27, 1947. Guth has studied basic particle theory (and how particle theory is applicable to the early universe).
- Terence Tao. Dubbed the Mozart of mathematics, Terence Tao has one of the highest IQs in the world, with a reported score of 230. He’s currently a professor of mathematics at UCLA, but his journey in math began when he was a kid.
- Marilyn vos Savant. At one point, columnist Marilyn vos Savant was in the Guinness Book of World Records for having the highest IQ score of 228. She scored 228 on the Stanford-Binet Intelligence scale and 186 on the Mega Test.
- Chris Hirata. Christopher Hirate’s family, friends, and teachers always knew he was a bonafide genius. With a rumored IQ of 225, Hirata won a gold medal at the International Physics Olympiad at 13 years old.
- Christopher Langan. With an IQ between 195 and 210, Christopher Langan is one of the smartest people alive. The average person assumes that the smartest ones are working hard in a lab discovering new cures or creating groundbreaking technology.
They are the Einsteins of our time, one-of-a-kind thinkers awarded MacArthur "genius" grants or Nobel Prizes who have come up with theories explaining the cosmos, inventions for the blind, and art that shakes our souls. We asked some of the brightest lights in the country how they recharge their brains when the ideas stop flowing. Sarah Ruhl, 33.
Sep 11, 2020 · Who are the most important mathematicians in the US and beyond? These math influencers made contributions in reasoning, number theory, probability, and more.
May 16, 2024 · 1. 26,714 votes. Albert Einstein. Dec. at 76 (1879-1955) 23,162 votes. Nikola Tesla. Dec. at 86 (1856-1943) 3. 23,295 votes. Isaac Newton. Dec. at 84 (1643-1727) 4. 27,280 votes. Leonardo da Vinci. Dec. at 67 (1452-1519) 5. 16,054 votes. Galileo Galilei. Dec. at 77 (1564-1642) 6.
