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Jan 23, 2011 · A Child Prodigy. Born in Boston in 1898, William James Sidis made the headlines in the early 20th century as a child prodigy with an amazing intellect. His IQ was estimated to be 50 to 100...
- A True Child Prodigy
- The Unparalleled IQ of William James Sidis
- The World’S Smartest Person Goes Out Not with A Bang, But with A Whimper
When William James Sidis was just 18 months old, he was able to read The New York Times. By the time he was 6 years old, he could speak in multiple languages, including English, French, German, Russian, Hebrew, Turkish, and Armenian. As if that wasn’t impressive enough, Sidis also invented his own language as a child (though it’s unclear if he ever...
Much speculation has been made over the years about William Sidis’ IQ. Any records of his IQ testing have been lost to time, so modern-day historians are forced to estimate. For context, 100 is considered an average IQ score, while below 70 is often viewed as substandard. Anything above 130 is considered gifted or very advanced. Some historical IQs...
William Sidis briefly courted controversywhen he was arrested at a Boston May Day Socialist March in 1919. He was sentenced to 18 months in prison for rioting and assaulting a police officer, but he had actually done neither. That said, Sidis was determined to live in quiet solitude after his brush with the law. He took on a series of menial jobs, ...
William James Sidis ( / ˈsaɪdɪs /; April 1, 1898 – July 17, 1944) was an American child prodigy with exceptional mathematical and linguistic skills, for which he was active as a mathematician, linguist, historian, and author (whose works were published covertly due to never using his real name). He wrote the book The Animate and the ...
- John W. Shattuck, Frank Folupa, Parker Greene, Jacob Marmor
- July 17, 1944 (aged 46), Boston, Massachusetts, U.S.
- April 1, 1898, Manhattan, New York City, U.S.
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Mar 24, 2023 · 5 min read. ·. Mar 24, 2023. -- 37. William James Sidis often lays claim to the title of the smartest man ever. Sidis was estimated to have an IQ in the 250–300 range. While accepted to Harvard...
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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 ...
Jan 20, 2021 · If I asked you to name the smartest person who ever lived, you might say Albert Einstein, Leonardo da Vinci, or someone like Stephen Hawking. I’m pretty sure you wouldn’t know a guy called William James Sidis, and yet, this man had an estimated IQ of 250 to 300. The Tragic Story of William James Sidis. William James Sidis was a mathematical ...
Apr 8, 2023 · William James Sidis is considered the smartest man who ever lived, with an IQ of 300. His theories baffle us today, but did this genius see something we don’t?
