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Oct 30, 2007 · The top 100 living geniuses was compiled by a panel of six experts in creativity and innovation from Creators Synectics, a global consultants firm. The company emailed 4,000 Britons in the summer...
Oct 29, 2007 · The full list of the world's top living geniuses: Results are in order of Rank, Name, Nationality, Field and Score. 1 Albert Hoffman, Swiss, Chemist, 27. 1 Tim Berners-Lee, British, Computer...
- Jim Dykstra
- This woman is a true Savant. It figures that someone whose last name literally means "a learned person, especially a distinguished scientist" would be one of the world's brightest.
- Chris Hirata is one of the smartest living people on the planet. Chris Hirata could've had a starring role in Baby Geniuses. By the time he was a preteen, he had a feature-length profile in the Chicago Tribune detailing his virtuosic abilities.
- Judit Polgar pulverized the competition. Judit Polgar has an IQ of 170, and she and her sisters were homeschooled by their father in an experimental curriculum that used chess as the central foundation.
- Kim Ung-yong was the original child prodigy. Kim Ung-yong is a classic genius case of starting ... "yong." Just how young was he when he began his reign of mental supremacy?
- Paul Allen
- Christopher Langan
- Judit Polgár
- Marilyn Vos Savant
- John H. Sununu
- Neil deGrasse Tyson
- Kim Ung-Yong
- Mislav Predavec
- Manahel Thabet
- Richard Rosner
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Billionaire Paul Allen reportedly has an IQ of between 160 and 170. Allen was born in 1953 in Seattle and made friends with Bill Gates while still at school. He attended Washington State University but quit his studies in 1974 and then talked Gates into leaving Harvard. The following year, the pair founded Microsoft in New Mexico. After he was told...
Born in San Francisco in 1952, self-educated Christopher Langan is a special kind of genius. By the time he turned four, he’d already taught himself how to read. At high school, according to Langan, he tutored himself in “advanced math, physics, philosophy, Latin and Greek, all that.” What’s more, he allegedly got 100 percent on his SAT test, even ...
Born in Budapest, Hungary in 1976, Judit Polgár is acknowledged as without doubt the best female chess player in history. Polgár was a chess-playing child prodigy and overcame her first grandmaster when she was just 11. At present, she is the only woman in the World Chess Federation’s Top 100 Players. She has also beaten nine world champions, inclu...
Marilyn vos Savant was born in 1946 in Missouri. In 1986 the columnist and author made history when she was named in The Guinness Book of World Records as the person possessing the highest IQ, with a reported score of 228. She is said to have achieved the score on the Stanford-Binet test at the age of ten. In the mid 1980s, Savant also took the con...
With a reported IQ of 180, John H. Sununu is another individual who has proved equal to the eligibility criteria for acceptance into the Mega Society high IQ club. Born in 1939 in Havana, Cuba, Sununu studied mechanical engineering at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, achieving his bachelor’s degree in 1961, his master’s in 1963 and his Ph...
Neil deGrasse Tyson is a high-profile American astrophysicist and research associate at the American Museum of Natural History, and he is also Frederick P. Rose Director of the Hayden Planetarium in New York City. Tyson was born in New York in 1958 and loved astronomy from a young age. In 1980 he graduated from Harvard with a bachelor’s degree in p...
Before The Guinness Book of World Recordswithdrew its Highest IQ category in 1990, South Korean former child prodigy Kim Ung-Yong made the list with a score of 210. Kim was born in Seoul in 1963, and by the time he turned three, he could already read Korean, Japanese, English and German. When he was just eight years old, Kim moved to America to wor...
Mislav Predavec is a Croatian mathematics professor with a reported IQ of 190. “I always felt I was a step ahead of others. As material in school increased, I just solved the problems faster and better,” he has explained. Predavec was born in Zagreb in 1967, and his unique abilities were obvious from a young age. As for his adult achievements, sinc...
In 2008, aged 25, Yemeni economist and scientist Manahel Thabet became the youngest person to receive a financial engineering Ph.D. magna cum laude. Thabet earned the degree at the University of Illinois and has since worked towards a second Ph.D. in quantum mathematics. In 2012 she came up with a revolutionary 350-page formula to calculate distanc...
U.S. television writer and pseudo-celebrity Richard Rosner is an unusual case. Born in 1960, he has led a somewhat checkered professional life: as well writing for Jimmy Kimmel Live! and other TV shows, Rosner has, he says, been employed as a stripper, doorman, male model and waiter. In 2000 he infamously appeared on Who Wants to Be a Millionaire?,...
A list of 30 individuals who are considered to be among the smartest people alive, based on their IQ, achievements and influence. The list includes billionaires, chess players, astrophysicists, mathematicians and more.
- Walter Graves
- Nikola Tesla. Dec. at 86 (1856-1943) 22,774 votes. Nikola Tesla was a Serbian American inventor, electrical engineer, mechanical engineer, physicist, and futurist best known for his contributions to the design of the modern alternating current electricity supply system.
- Albert Einstein. Dec. at 76 (1879-1955) 26,483 votes. Albert Einstein ( EYEN-styne; German: [ˈalbɛɐ̯t ˈʔaɪnʃtaɪn] (listen); 14 March 1879 – 18 April 1955) was a German-born theoretical physicist who developed the theory of relativity, one of the two pillars of modern physics (alongside quantum mechanics).
- Isaac Newton. Dec. at 84 (1643-1727) 23,106 votes. Sir Isaac Newton (25 December 1642 – 20 March 1726/27) was an English mathematician, physicist, astronomer, theologian, and author (described in his own day as a "natural philosopher") who is widely recognised as one of the most influential scientists of all time, and a key figure in the scientific revolution.
- Leonardo da Vinci. Dec. at 67 (1452-1519) 27,173 votes. Leonardo di ser Piero da Vinci was an Italian polymath, painter, sculptor, architect, musician, mathematician, engineer, inventor, anatomist, geologist, cartographer, botanist, and writer.
Nov 6, 2007 · These are a few of the eminences appearing on a list of the "top 100 living geniuses" compiled by the UK office of the global consulting firm Synectics and published on October 29.
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Oct 30, 2007 · Top 100 living geniuses. British geniuses feature heavily in a recent list that notes the greatest living thinkers of our time - proportionately more than any other country.
