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  1. Aug 14, 2022 · Published August 14, 2022. Updated November 8, 2023. 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 ...

  2. 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.

  3. May 26, 2021 · William James Sidis Is Likely the Smartest Man to Have Ever Lived. By: John Donovan | May 26, 2021. William "Billy" Sidis was the son of two Ukrainian Jews, Sarah and Boris, who insisted that everything Billy did, he did in pursuit of knowledge. Wikimedia/ (CC BY-SA 2.0)

  4. Apr 8, 2023 · William James Sidis, the Man who Knew Everything. by Robbie Mitchell April 8, 2023. 2. In the early 20th century, a child prodigy captured the world’s attention with his exceptional intellect and early accomplishments. His name was William James Sidis, and his remarkable abilities in various fields of study, including mathematics, language ...

  5. Jun 9, 2022 · A century earlier, while Eddington was launching his gauntlet, the forgotten visionary William James Sidis (April 1, 1898–July 17, 1944) contoured this possibility in his 1925 book The Animate and the Inanimate (public library | public domain) — an inquiry into the origin and nature of life, which anticipated Fermi’s paradox, inspired ...

  6. 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.

  7. 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).

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