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This is an accepted version of this page This is the latest accepted revision, reviewed on 5 February 2025. American child prodigy (1898–1944) William James Sidis Sidis at his Harvard graduation (1914) Born (1898-04-01) April 1, 1898 Boston, Massachusetts, U.S. Died July 17, 1944 (1944-07-17) (aged 46) Boston, Massachusetts, U.S. Other names John W. Shattuck Frank Folupa Parker Greene Jacob ...
A likely origin for the "10% myth" is the reserve energy theories of Harvard psychologists William James and Boris Sidis. In the 1890s, they tested the theory in the accelerated raising of the child prodigy William Sidis. Thereafter, James told lecture audiences that people only meet a fraction of their full mental potential, which is a ...
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William James Sidis (1898–1944) was a mathematics and language prodigy. Sidis was able to read The New York Times as an 18-month-old. He taught himself eight languages by age eight and invented his own.
Boris Sidis (/ ˈ s aɪ d ɪ s /; October 12, 1867 – October 24, 1923) was a Ukrainian-American psychopathologist, psychologist, physician, psychiatrist, and philosopher of education. Sidis founded the New York State Psychopathic Institute and the Journal of Abnormal Psychology. He was the father of child prodigy William James Sidis.
She dedicated her biography of William James Sidis, The Prodigy, to him. They divorced in 1986. They divorced in 1986. In 1990 she entered a relationship with anthropologist Carlos Castaneda , which she wrote about in her memoir, Sorcerer's Apprentice: My Life with Carlos Castaneda, published in 2003.
Sidis may refer to: Boris Sidis (1867–1923), psychologist, psychiatrist, and psychopathologist, father of William James Sidis William James Sidis (1898–1944), eccentric genius and child prodigy, son of Boris
Martha Foley (March 21, 1897 – September 5, 1977) was an American writer. She co-founded Story magazine in 1931 with her husband Whit Burnett, and achieved some celebrity by introducing notable authors through the magazine, such as J. D. Salinger, Tennessee Williams and Richard Wright.