He is a professor of physics and astronomy at Ohio State University. Emanuel Swedenborg was an 18th century scientist and theologian. His estimated IQ scores range from to by different measures. Renowned most of his life for his contributions to the natural sciences, Swedenborg had a spiritual awakening in his 50s and published what is now his most famous work — a description of the afterlife called "Heaven and Hell.
Highly regarded after his death by philosophers and mystics, Swedenborg claimed he could visit heaven and hell at will and that his ideas about spirituality, God, and Christ came to him in dreams and visions. Ettore Majorana was an Italian theoretical physicist who studied neutrino masses, electrically neutral subatomic particles that are created in nuclear reactions.
He became a full professor of theoretical physics at the University of Naples one year before his mysterious disappearance during a boat trip from Palermo to Naples. His body was never found. The Majorana equation and Majorana fermions are named after him, and in , the Majoran a Prize in theoretical physics was established in his memory.
Francois Marie Arouet, better known by his pen name Voltaire, was born in Paris in He was one of France's greatest writers and philosophers, known for his satirical genius and biting criticism of his country's noblemen. Throughout his life, Voltaire vigorously defended the distinction between natural science and philosophy. Many of his critical writings were directed against established philosophers such as Leibniz, Malebranche, and Descartes, according to the Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy.
Often referred to as England's national poet and the "Bard of Avon," William Shakespeare had an estimated IQ of and is widely regarded as the greatest English-speaking writer and dramatist to have ever lived. Born during a lightning storm in , Nikola Tesla went on to invent the Tesla coil and alternating current machinery.
He had an intense rivalry with Thomas Edison throughout his life, and many of his projects were funded by JPMorgan, who would later become his business partner. The Serbian physicist died penniless in a New York City hotel room in Leonhard Euler was a Swiss mathematician and physicist. Born in and educated in Basel, Euler spent most of his career in St.
Petersburg and Berlin. Euler was one of the founders of pure mathematics and further developed the study of integral calculus. He authored " Introductio in Analysin Infinitorum ," and h is complete works fill about 90 volumes. He had a legendary memory and could recite the entire " Aeneid" word-for-word.
Galileo was an Italian natural philosopher, astronomer, and mathematician born in who developed such scientific concepts as circular inertia and the law of falling bodies.
His discoveries with the Telescope undermined Aristotelian cosmology, particularly his findings that Venus goes through phases just as the Moon does and that Jupiter has four moons orbiting around it. Towards the end of his life, the Church denounced him as a heretic due to his advocacy of Copernicus' heliocentric model of the universe.
Considered to be the greatest German mathematician of the 19th century, Carl Gauss was a child prodigy who went on to contribute extensively to the fields of number theory, algebra, statistics, and analysis. His writings were particularly influential in the study of electromagnetism. He refused to publish anything until it was absolutely perfect. Thomas Young was an English physician and physicist whose contributions to the fields of vision, light, physiology, and language led to many important discoveries in optics and human anatomy.
He was also an Egyptologist who helped decipher the Rosetta Stone. One of his most important discoveries was that the lens of the human eye changes shape to focus on objects at different distances, which ultimately led him to determine the cause of astigmatism. He was also the first to postulate how the eye perceives colors.
William Sidis the inspiration for the film "Good Will Hunting" was an American child prodigy whose IQ scores range from to by different measures.
He was accepted to Harvard at the age of 9, but the university wouldn't let him attend due to his "emotional immaturity. Reporters followed him everywhere, and he eventually became a recluse, moving from city to city under different names, to avoid the spotlight. He died at the age of 46 from a massive stroke.
Gottfried Leibniz was a German philosopher and logician who is perhaps best well known for inventing differential and integral calculus. In , Leibniz founded a new formulation of the laws of motion known as dynamics, substituting kinetic energy for the conservation of movement.
His contributed extensively to the philosophy of language with his work on necessary and contingent truths, possible worlds, and the principle of sufficient reason. Copernicus was a Polish mathematician and astronomer whose discovery of the heliocentric model of the universe — in which the sun and not the earth is the center of our solar system — revolutionized the study of the cosmos. The book remained on the list of forbidden reading material for nearly three centuries thereafter. Rudolf Clausius was a German physicist and mathematician best known for formulating the second law of thermodynamics.
Clausius made thermodynamics a science, coined the term "entropy," and developed the kinetic theory of gases. He was also one of the first scientists to suggest that molecules are made up of continually interchanging atoms , which later provided the basis for the theory of electrolytic dissociation the breakdown of molecules into charged atoms or ions.
James Maxwell was a Scottish mathematical physicist who is best known for formulating the classical theory of electromagnetic radiation.
Maxwell is credited with laying the foundations for quantum theory and was was revered by many, including Einstein. Most famous for his law of gravitation, English physicist and mathematician Sir Isaac Newton was instrumental in the scientific revolution of the 17th century.
What about L. Beethoven, W. Mozart or J. If you know them and understand their music, you'll see Bach is the greatest composer by far. Wow you just nailed the ones I was thinking of exactly. I agree! Gauss and Euler were awesome. Beethoven, Mozart, and Bach as well. The whole idea of "genius" is so difficult to evaluate and understand. The vast contributions of so many minds make the yardstick quite difficult to calibrate, especially throughout the years. I hoped that Archimedes would be there.
I think there is an unproven but probable fact that he knew calculus, long before the world credited Isaac Newton with the crown of laurel! He is the probable architect of the Antikythera device for calculating celestial precessions! That all involves, at the very least, an understanding and a facility for differentials.
William James Sidis is way smarter than everyone on this list, and the people you just named. The entire intro explains exactly why they are not on the list. His IQ has been widely estimated to be between to He will certainly make it to the top 3 of the list and perhaps one of the most influential human beings that ever lived!
Newton 2. Darwin 3. Galileo These are my rankings in intellectual influence to everyday life in order. Although this is subjective, I believe what they have done is pretty extraordinary.
What I read about Darwin is that he was in fact not very special. I read that in mastery from Robert Greene. But I also read some other sources that he was a very ordinary pupil.
He was not very special in any big regard. So a no for him. I find Einsteins insights much deeper and fascinating than Newtons, although, Newton has a place close to Einstein as a consequence of his great impact on physics and science in general. I have never heard of Galileo in one of the top spots but Nietzsche describes Goethe as a big European, one of the greatest.
And Nietzsche was way deeper than any philosopher before him. So, next to my knowledge about Goethe, I give that a lot of credit and consider Goethe to be somewhere in the top 5. What about albert einstein. Though his IQ is not upto but he is regarded as a genius and one of the most intelligent people.
When you talk of intelligency you talk of him. Einstein is actually greatly overrated try to think of what contributions he made to making human life a better thing or more secure or to produce more goods or services. He is far surpassed by many other Geniuses not on the list such as Henry Ford Adam Smith Thomas Alva Edison Nikola Tesla Willis carrier and the list goes on and on Einstein actually didn't contribute anything to help you manatee in any concrete weigh he is greatly overrated.
His genius was actually very narrow and was limited to the fields of physics and Mathematics even the ancient Greek Archimedes contribute more to this day to human life on Earth with his invention of the Archimedes screw which is still used throughout much of the world to help irrigate fields to grow food Einstein in my opinion was the idiot of geniuses. Well then I think u don't know this guy Einstein. Einstein might have created something that caused destruction on a large scale but I assure u dat dis guy is even underrated.
I discovered dat he had been said to have a lower IQ than most but he gave de best of himself. It well sounds like you are not science inclined else u shud knw him better. Einstein broke too many rules, scrabbed theories and rewrote laws.
His ideas were de craziest but they were feasible. Like I mean he created an era. Just read about him. Aristotle and Ayn Rand are the top geniuses because they created observation-based, systematic knowledge of existence as a whole, ie, philosophy. This requires more IQ than mere science, which is merely about parts of existence, eg, physics, psychology. Art, while about existence as a whole, merely shows but does not explain.
Genius is NOT intelligence. Genius is creative ability of the highest possible kind. True most Geniuses are highly intelligent --but this depends on the field their Genius was recognized in. And here there is a plethora of problems. Recognized by whom; which people, what Society, when and where.
There is an old joke that goes something like I will believe in Psychologists devising tests from Geniuses when Monkeys devise tests for Psychologists. Yes it is off the mark and makes you wonder. Puts one in mind of the problem of A. No answer exists for this and it seems to me there is a comparison here: Human intelligence does not reach the point where it can solve such a problem. I hope I'm wrong, but I doubt this?. I do have ideas of my own on this, but so far no one seems interested in this.
I was also listed in Great Minds of the Early 21 st Century in All such lists-comparisons are temporary. There appears less and less match between persons and outcomes these days. Humanity hangs by it's intellectual neck on the tree of tragedy --there are no Leonardo's in the 19 th, 20th, and so far in the 21 st Century. With mass education has come the noisy ones but no Geniuses to show for it all.
Bad money has driven out good money, bad people good people. The masses have come to judge the best and are part of this process to drive out the very people they need most, all in the name of incorrectly accessed political correctness. Today the system has driven down performance; today big institutional science has been a spoiler of great insights delaying progress everywhere.
Today it is business as usual. The criminal come to the top. My greatest fear is that an end is coming to the centuries of progress that mankind has grown use to. The age of Genius may be at an end. Harding Found I. Congrats on being on the list, though I am not sure how someone can come up with this sort of list without being tongue in cheek.
Talk about presumptuous. I assume it has to do with published articles, etc. I agree with the idea of associating genius more relevantly to creativity, than to the mixed bag you get in IQ tests, where math, vocabulary, spatial recognition all come in.
On the idea that white men dominate the list, to the exclusion of Asians in particular, yes, I think this piece is geared to those of us in Western Civilization. And when you talk about that, it is pretty definitively white men. I mean, I kind of cringe when folks feel they have to put Marie Curie on the list. She identified two radioactive isotopes, working along side her husband and under the direction of another professor.
She died of radiation poisoning, the thing she was an expert in: kind of puts a dent in the idea of being one of the all-time smartest. Good comments. I really do believe that the strictures of science and the politics of course mean that ideas not founded on the "material matter as reality" supposition, creates a limitation. Those seeing beyond that have little support or acknowledgement from the usual suspects. DO something about the problem.
Maybe you can or can't but trying is where it starts. Even the entire universe the biggest thing is the smallest thing at the same time it is not. You could say at the beginning it was the smallest thing and things that expanded with such intensity and scope and and acceleration that with one small thing this maybe all universe can change.
Einstein's IQ was only a few points above the borderline for genius, His IQ was only , so he is not one of the most intellegent. His IQ was only , so he is not one of the most intelligent. Yet he had a profound effect on the modern world.
Think not about Henry Ford who single handily changed modern production. I wonder how all of us compare to these? IQ has a threshold. Once a person has met a certain requirement of IQ, other factors become more important in determining their success and overall impact on the world. That is why Einstein had an IQ of and was the most brilliant mind ever, while Christopher Langan has an IQ of , and has experienced no such success, rather failure after failure.
FinancesOnline is available for free for all business professionals interested in an efficient way to find top-notch SaaS solutions.
We are able to keep our service free of charge thanks to cooperation with some of the vendors, who are willing to pay us for traffic and sales opportunities provided by our website. How we get the IQ Estimating the IQ levels of people who had died centuries before a refined scientific intelligence benchmarking had been developed is tricky; but here we have two of the most often quoted studies : the Early Mental Traits of Geniuses by American psychologist Catherine Cox, who computed the IQs of geniuses from the fifteenth to the nineteenth century; and the Book of Genius by English learning expert, Tony Buzan, who ranked a more encompassing greatest geniuses of our world.
Michelangelo — IQ level: Tied with the French philosopher is another Italian Renaissance man, the sculptor, painter, architect, poet, and engineer, Michelangelo. John Stuart Mill — IQ level: Share Tweet Share shares. Don xavier says:. IQ says:. Rocko says:. Karl says:. Saman says:. How they measure the IQ of people like Leibniz. Isiorho Jeffrey Aghogho says:. Arnold Diaz says:. The following year, the pair founded Microsoft in New Mexico. He launched the Allen Institute for Brain Science in and founded space transport company Stratolaunch Systems in Born in San Francisco in , self-educated Christopher Langan is a special kind of genius.
Langan attended Montana State University but dropped out. She has also beaten nine world champions, including Garry Kasparov and Anatoly Karpov. Marilyn vos Savant was born in in Missouri. In 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 She is said to have achieved the score on the Stanford-Binet test at the age of ten. With a reported IQ of , John H.
Sununu is another individual who has proved equal to the eligibility criteria for acceptance into the Mega Society high IQ club. However, in Sununu stepped down following allegations that he had abused his government travel privileges. Tyson was born in New York in and loved astronomy from a young age. He then went to Columbia, where he obtained his M. Kim was born in Seoul in , and by the time he turned three, he could already read Korean, Japanese, English and German.
In any case, in he moved back to South Korea and went on to earn a Ph. Mislav Predavec is a Croatian mathematics professor with a reported IQ of Predavec was born in Zagreb in , and his unique abilities were obvious from a young age.
In addition, he runs trading company Preminis, having done so since In the World Genius Directory ranked Predavec as the third smartest person in the world. In , aged 25, Yemeni economist and scientist Manahel Thabet became the youngest person to receive a financial engineering Ph.
Thabet earned the degree at the University of Illinois and has since worked towards a second Ph. In she came up with a revolutionary page formula to calculate distance in space without the use of light. Thabet set up the company Smart Tips Consultants in Born in , he has led a somewhat checkered professional life: as well writing for Jimmy Kimmel Live! In he infamously appeared on Who Wants to Be a Millionaire? Rosner reportedly hit the books for 20 hours a day to try and outdo Katsioulis, but to no avail.
Astrophysicist Chris Hirata was born in Michigan in , and at the age of 13 he became the youngest U. At 16 — with a reported IQ of — he started doing work for NASA, investigating whether it would be feasible for humans to settle on Mars. Then in he went on to obtain a Ph. Source: www. He is known as the smartest man in America having an IQ of and At present he is 64 years old. Do You know that who Invented Ball pen?
Do you know that he had booked a place for himself in The Guinness Book of World records and has more brain power than Hawking and Einstein. When he was four months young he started speaking and at the age of 2 he used to read Japanese, Korean, German and English. These both are achieved in Ten Incredible Libraries around the World. Space Missions to the Sun: Brief Analysis. Are you worried or stressed?
0コメント