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Find a Grave Memorial ID: 19750232. Sponsored by P. David Eastburn. Source citation. Linguist and Mathematician. Sidis, named for family friend, Prof. William James, was born to Boris and Sarah, who were intellectuals in their own right. There are many instances of William's profound and precocious genius as a young boy.
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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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 ...
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. View Full Article in ...
Aug 14, 2022 · William James Sidis spoke 25 languages and had an IQ 100 points higher than Albert Einstein's, but the smartest man in the world just wanted to live his life in seclusion. In 1898, the smartest man who ever lived was born in America. His name was William James Sidis and his IQ was eventually estimated to be between 250 and 300 (with 100 being ...
Jan 23, 2011 · To those who knew of his son, William James Sidis was quite possibly the smartest man who ever lived. A Child Prodigy. Born in Boston in 1898, William James Sidis made the headlines in the early ...
Sep 28, 2023 · Published 7 months ago. History is filled with stories of child prodigies who never quite reached their full potential. However, not many have heard of the 11-year-old boy William Sidis, whom many claimed was smarter than the great Albert Einstein himself. He was the youngest to ever enroll at Harvard, but what happened to him, and why didn't ...
