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

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

    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 ...

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    • July 17, 1944 (aged 46), Boston, Massachusetts, U.S.

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  4. www.historictalk.com › en › year-old-prodigyMeet the 11-Year-Old Harvard Student Who Outsmarted Einstein

    Sep 28, 2023 · Published 6 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 ...

  5. www.thefamouspeople.com › profiles › william-jamesWilliam James Sidis Biography – Facts, Childhood, Family, Career

    William James Sidis was born on April 1, 1898 in Manhattan, New York City to Boris Sidis, a psychologist, physician, psychiatrist, and philosopher of education, and Sarah Mandelbaum, a Boston University School of Medicine graduate. Both his parents were Jewish emigrants from Ukraine; while Boris had emigrated in 1887 to escape political and ...

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

    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 ...

  7. www.npr.org › 2011/01/23 › 132737060Meet William James Sidis: The Smartest Guy Ever? : NPR

    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 ...

  8. medium.com › lessons-from-history › the-tragedy-of-aThe Tragedy of a Math Guy Who Spoke 25 Languages and Was ...

    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 ...