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Jun 9, 2022 · Within a year, he found himself so catatonically unstimulated that he left for New York City, where he took a job as an adding machine clerk making $23 a week. He entered the Harvard Law School, then dropped out and set about translating Chekhov’s pamphlet on the hazards of tobacco and refuting Freud while working out his own social and ...
May 26, 2021 · The son of two Ukrainian Jews who emigrated to America in the late 1800s, William James Sidis was born in New York on April Fool's Day 1898. He was named after one of his father's friends and colleagues, the philosopher William James, who originated the idea of a "stream of thought."
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Born in New York on April 1, 1898, to Russian immigrants, Sidis could easily read the newspaper when he was only 18 months old. ... In 1909, the 11-year old William Sidis became the youngest ...
Apr 8, 2023 · James Sidis was born on April 1, 1898, in New York City. His parents were Boris Sidis, ... Reviving a 3,000-year-old Ancient Mesoamerican Ballgame (Video)
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TimeLife Bio. Bent Twig. Time-Life Books, 1991. (HTML text follows.) For William James Sidis, a fine mind — perhaps one of history's best—became a kind of deformity. Instead of following the expected meteoric career, the child prodigy opted for what seemed a life of mediocre obscurity that earned him the hatred of a disappointed public and ...
New York Times, May 14, 1919, p.1----- He served the time in house arrest supervised . by his parents. See his reaction to it in "Railroading" in the Past . A Youthful Prodigy In Trouble New York Times, May 15, 1919, p.16. Genius Early Revealed New York Times, May 15, 1919, p.16 . Burnout myth grows. Having taken . part in an anti-draft ...
Boris Sidis ( / ˈsaɪdɪs /; October 12, 1867 – October 24, 1923) was a Ukrainian-American psychologist, physician, psychiatrist, and philosopher of education. Sidis founded the New York State Psychopathic Institute and the Journal of Abnormal Psychology. He was the father of child prodigy William James Sidis.