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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).
Boston Herald, July 18, 1944. His death after a lifetime of press attention was international news. ----- The Hidden Genius New York Times, Wednesday, July 19, 1944, p.18 'Burnout' one last time.----- "Sidis' Boyhood Seen Case of All Work and No Play" by Alice Burke
- William James Sidis: A Child Prodigy Like No Other
- The Unparalleled IQ of William James Sidis
- The “World’s Smartest Person” Spends His Last Decades in Seclusion
On April 1, 1898, William James Sidis, the “smartest person who ever lived,” was born in Boston, Massachusetts. His parents, Ukrainian immigrants Boris and Sarah Sidis, were pretty intelligent themselves. Boris was a famed psychologist while Sarah was a doctor. From the start, William James Sidis’ parents adored their gifted son, spending untold mo...
Much speculation has been made over the years about William James 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 historic...
William James 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 ...
BOSTON, July 17 -- William James Sidis, boy prodigy of thirty-five years ago, who was graduated from Harvard at the age of 16, died today in a hospital. His age was 46.
Jan 20, 2021 · William James Sidis (pronounced Sy-dis) was born in 1898 in Manhattan, New York. His parents, Boris and Sarah, were Jewish immigrants who had fled the pogroms in Ukraine in the 1880s. His parents were equally intelligent and ambitious.
William James Sidis was a genius. He was by far the most precocious intellectual child of his generation. His death in 1944 as an undistinguished figure was made the occasion for reawakening the old wives tales about nervous breakdowns, burned out prodigies and insanity among geniuses.
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William James Sidis was an American child prodigy with exceptional mathematical and linguistic skills who is known for his 1920 book The Animate and the Inanimate, in which he speculates about the origin of life in the context of thermodynamics.
