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W illiam James Sidis was born in 1898 to Russian immigrants -- intellectual refugees from the pogroms. Sidis's father, Boris, was brilliant, and William James trained him in psychology at Harvard. The boy's mother, Sarah, gave up her own medical ambitions to forge intellectual greatness in their young son. Young Sidis could read at 18 months.
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.
Jan 11, 2024 · William James Sidis photographed at his Harvard graduation in 1914. Public Domain. The average person’s IQ is between 90 and 109. People are considered geniuses if their IQ is over 140. Albert ...
William James Sidis (in the only image of him as an adult, taken for a Harvard class album) died in 1944 at the age of 46. Photograph courtesy of the Harvard University Archives Norbert Wiener (in a classroom at MIT, circa 1949) became a pioneer in the field of cybernetics.
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William James Sidis (April 1, 1898 – July 17, 1944) was an American child prodigy born to Jewish emigrants from Ukraine with exceptional mathematical and linguistic skills. He is notable for his 1920 book The Animate and the Inanimate, in which he postulates the existence of dark matter, entropy and the origin of life in the context of ...
The elder Sidis, a Russian-born pioneer in the field of psychopathology, was also deeply interested in early education and firmly convinced that the brain was at its most receptive in the first years of life. In 1898, with the birth of his son, he gained a perfect subject for his experiments. “To delay is a mistake and wrong to the child ...
