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1. www.findagrave.com › memorial › 19750232William James Sidis (1898-1944) - Find a Grave Memorial

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   1 Apr 1898. Manhattan, New York County, New York, USA. Death. 17 Jul 1944 (aged 46) Boston, Suffolk County, Massachusetts, USA. Burial. Harmony Grove Cemetery. Portsmouth, Rockingham County, New Hampshire, USA Add to Map. Plot. Harmony Grove 791 P. Memorial ID. 19750232. · View Source. Suggest Edits. Memorial. Photos 28. Flowers 98. Memorials.

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3. www.nytimes.com › 1944/07/18 › archivesSIDIS, A 'WONDER' IN BOYHOOD, DIES ... - The New York Times

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   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.

4. en.wikipedia.org › wiki › William_James_SidisWilliam James Sidis - Wikipedia

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   The Tribes and the States ( c. 1935) 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).

   • Other names: John W. Shattuck, Frank Folupa, Parker Greene, Jacob Marmor
   • Died: July 17, 1944 (aged 46), Boston, Massachusetts, U.S.

   • Born: April 1, 1898, Manhattan, New York City, U.S.

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   How old was William James Sidis when he died?

   • Subscribers may view the full text of this article in its original form through TimesMachine. 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.

   SIDIS, A 'WONDER' IN BOYHOOD, DIES; Graduate of Harvard at 16, He L…

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   How old was William Sidis when he went to Harvard?

   • In 1909, the 11-year old William Sidis became the youngest person to attend Harvard. He was considered the brightest of a group of prodigies at Harvard in 1909 which included Norbert Wiener, considered the father of cybernetics, and composer Roger Sessions.

   The Rise and Fall of William James Sidis: From the Smartest Man Alive

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   Why did William Sidis change his name?

   • In 1925 he published a remarkable book on cosmology in which he predicted black holes — 14 years before Chandrasekhar did. But primarily he fled his childhood, and he fled his parents. He kept on changing his jobs and name because he didn’t want to be identified as the “child prodigy William Sidis” anymore.

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   Who was Boris Sidis?

   • Boris Sidis, driven to this country by the Russian pogroms of the late 19th Century, underwent incredible hardships before becoming a Harvard teacher. Along the way he married Sarah Mandelbaum, a star private pupil and like himself, a highly motivated and ambitious person.

   THE PRODIGY: A BIOGRAPHY OF WILLIAM SIDIS – Chicago Tribune

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   Feb 12, 2023 · Boston Herald started the report about Sidis’s court case in 1919: “William James Sidis, who was graduated from Harvard at the age of 15, told Judge Albert F. Hayden in the Roxbury Municipal ...

7. www.sidis.net › herald1919Boston Herald, May 4,1919 - Sidis

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   SIDIS GETS YEAR AND HALF IN JAIL. Boston Herald, Wednesday, May 14, 1919. Click to enlarge. Distortion of his likeness aside, this article contains some of his trial testimony. William James Sidis, who was graduated from Harvard at the age of 15, told Judge Albert F. Hayden in the Roxbury Municipal Court yesterday that he is a Socialist, a ...

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8. interestingengineering.com › william-james-sidisThe Rise and Fall of William James Sidis: From the Smartest ...

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   Nov 24, 2021 · William James Sidis. Source: The Sidis Archive/Wikimedia Commons Born in New York on April 1, 1898, to Russian immigrants, Sidis could easily read the newspaper when he was only 18 months old.

9. www.chicagotribune.com › 1986/07/13 › the-prodigy-aTHE PRODIGY: A BIOGRAPHY OF WILLIAM SIDIS – Chicago Tribune

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   Aug 9, 2021 · THE PRODIGY: A BIOGRAPHY OF WILLIAM SIDIS. By Chicago Tribune. PUBLISHED: July 13, 1986 at 1:00 a.m. | UPDATED: August 9, 2021 at 6:24 a.m. In 1909 and 1910 one could scarcely pick up a newspaper ...