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      • On July 17, 1944, former child prodigy William Sidis died at 46. Sidis had become a celebrity when he entered Harvard College at age 11, and within a year was lecturing to the university mathematics club on the topic of “four-dimensional properties.”
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  2. Jan 20, 2021 · He died, a penniless recluse, at the age of 46. What happened to him, and why didn’t he use his phenomenally high IQ? Here is the life story of William James Sidis. The Influence of William James Sidis’ Parents Boris Sidis. William James Sidis (pronounced Sy-dis) was born in 1898 in Manhattan, New York.

  3. Jan 31, 2023 · That same year Sidis, who at least in his time was considered the smartest man in the world, died of a brain hemorrhage at the age of only 46. In the past, one man was found to have an astonishing 250 to 300 IQ — arguably among the highest in history. William James Sidis entered the world in 1898.

  4. Jan 18, 2024 · Jan 18, 2024. 13. In a world that celebrates genius, the story of William James Sidis unfolds a different narrative. His IQ, estimated between 250 and 300, eclipses even Einstein’s reputed...

  5. Jul 17, 2015 · When he died in 1944, it was of a cerebral hemorrhage, the same thing that had killed his father in 1923. Pushed by His Father, William Sidis Had Written Four Books by Age 8, but Those Meanies at Harvard Wouldn’t Let Him in Until He Was 11.

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  6. Jun 9, 2022 · William James Sidis. Two decades before the pioneering X-ray crystallographer Kathleen Lonsdale — another of the rares — was imprisoned as conscientious objector to the Second World War, William James Sidis was arrested for objecting to the First.

  7. May 26, 2021 · William James Sidis Is Likely the Smartest Man to Have Ever Lived. William "Billy" Sidis was the son of two Ukrainian Jews, Sarah and Boris, who insisted that everything Billy did, he did in pursuit of knowledge. Wikimedia/ (CC BY-SA 2.0) When William (Billy) Sidis was barely 3 years old, the story goes, he taught himself a language: Latin. By ...

  8. Apr 8, 2023 · Sidis passed away in 1944 at the age of 46, reportedly due to a cerebral hemorrhage. Why is He Considered the Smartest Man Ever? This isn’t an official title.

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