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This is an accepted version of this page This is the latest accepted revision, reviewed on 16 December 2024. 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 ...
Christopher Michael Langan (born March 25, 1952) is an American horse rancher and former bar bouncer, known for scoring highly on an IQ test that gained him entry to a high IQ society, and for being formerly listed in the Guinness Book of Records high IQ section under the pseudonym of Eric Hart, alongside Marilyn vos Savant and Keith Raniere.
American electrochemical engineer Libb Thims took an unorthodox approach when he set out to rank the smartest people of all time. Thims first compiled a list of people with IQ scores over 200 as a ...
Wattenburg patented the first home alarm system using electrical wiring for its communication medium. Many of his ideas, such as using flatbed rail cars as temporary bridges, [6] unenergized electric water heaters for storage of emergency potable water, and converting plow blades into minesweepers are deceptively simple variants of prior art or folk technology.
Goldbach’s Conjecture. One of the greatest unsolved mysteries in math is also very easy to write. Goldbach’s Conjecture is, “Every even number (greater than two) is the sum of two primes ...
Professor who knew Bill Gates as a student at Harvard: He was the smartest person I'd ever met. Shana Lebowitz. Updated July 14, 2016 at 10:43 PM. The Richest People in the World.
Kim Ung-Yong (Korean: 김웅용; born March 8, 1962) [1] is a South Korean civil engineer. During his youth, he was recognized as a child prodigy with the highest recorded IQ having scored above 210 on the Stanford–Binet Intelligence Scale, He entered university at the age of 4.
One of the first messages Hawking produced with his speech-generating device was a request for his assistant to help him finish writing A Brief History of Time. [152] Peter Guzzardi, his editor at Bantam, pushed him to explain his ideas clearly in non-technical language, a process that required many revisions from an increasingly irritated ...