The original definition of a genius range IQ according to American psychologist Lewis Terman (1916); although, to note; although, to note, alternatively, American exceptional children psychologist Leta Hollingworth (1886-1939), noted for her Children Above 180 IQ, sets the genius mark at 160+. [1]

In IQs, a genius IQ is intelligence quotient or integer number at or above 140 (Terman, 1916) or 160 (Hollingworth, 1942), depending on view, the validity of the method used to discern IQ number being of prime importance.

“Talent hits a target no one else can hit; Genius hits a target no one else can see.”

— Arthur Schopenhauer (IQ=185), German philosopher

The following table is a work-in-progress weighted meta-analysis genius rankings of 425+ geniuses, wherein left column IQs are considered true IQs. In these rankings, strong weight is affixed to the conditional term “genius”, from the Latin gignere “to beget” (to produce), in the sense that one may have a strong aptitude, marked capacity, or heightened inclination in some area, but if one does not beget of esteemed respected intellectual note, one is not necessarily a genius and the IQ estimate may be a pseudo-estimate, false positive, or over-estimate. The genius IQs table itself is an expanded version of the popular 2008-2010 constructed IQ: 200+ table, albeit extended down to the 140 range, with cited IQs shifted (↑,↓) up or down ± 5-10 (upgrade/downgrade) or more points (per modern day hard science perspective), giving a blended representative, realistic, and comparative listing of elite geniuses, media-promoted genius, new comer geniuses, child prodigies, and others, and their said-to-be IQ estimates (third column), listed in realistic descending order of intelligence. The updown arrow (↕) is shown next to still reactive (existing) individuals listed on the table; being that true genius IQs, which can change per decade (shift up or down), can only be estimated in retrospect—thus allowing for clear unbiased prolonged digestion of the weight of the person’s work.

Methodology
The following (under construction) listing is ranked in descending order of realist or true IQ (left column), in the sense of who is the smartest, ranked by a number of factors, firstly meta-analysis of known IQ estimates (Cox, Buzan, Guinness, psychologists, etc.), universal genius [UG] or "last universal genius" [LUG] status (IQ=207+), last person to know everything [LPKE] , two cultures genius [TCG], greatest physicist ever [GPE], greatest mathematician ever [GME], greatest chemist ever [GCE], greatest engineer ever [GEE], greatest philosopher ever [GPhE], greatest thermodynamicist ever [GTE], polymath (IQAVG = 189), uberman (IQ=186+), double Nobel Prize [DNP] winners, among other factors. The twenty-three agreed upon classic, elite, or anchor point "Cox-Buzan geniuses" (Catherine Cox (1926) + Tony Buzan (1994)), shown bolded in RED, is the reference point IQ-estimation benchmark ruler (common geniuses to both IQ studies), each of which are adjusted, upon which the other known genius IQ estimates are fitted. A KEY below the table explains the icons and IQ subscripts.

IQ	Person	IQ estimates	Description
	Johann Goethe (1749-1832) ↑↑↑	=213 =180, 225 =210 =215	A dual scientific revolutions genius; [LUG] [LPKE] [TCG] [polymath] [uberman]; a Cattell 1000 (top 10); library=5000+ books; founder of human chemistry (theory: human elective affinities (1796); forerunner to the future 22nd century hard science of human chemical thermodynamics); known for: literature (second ranked WorldCatbehind Shakespeare (IQ=185)), evolution theory (forerunner to Darwin (IQ=175)), poetry (top 10 greatest), anatomy (discovered the intermaxillary bone, proving an connection between humans and lower animals); physics (color theory of light in opposition to Newton's (IQ=215) corpuscular theory); philosophical-intellectual mentor to: Einstein (IQ=220), Tesla (IQ=195), Helmholtz (IQ=195), Freud (IQ=180), Eliot (IQ=175), Jung (IQ=160), among others; a founder of religious mythology (1770); world's largest active vocabulary (50,000-90,000 words); very high in emotional intelligence.
	Albert Einstein (1879-1955) ↑	=160, 200, 225 =205	A triple scientific revolutions genius; [GPE]; known for: the light quanta hypothesis (quantum mechanics); relativity, radiation thermodynamics; library=650+ books (52 of which, the largest representative author, were by Goethe); kept a bust of Goethe in his study.
	Isaac Newton (1643-1727) ↑	=193 =200 =190 =195	A triple scientific revolutions genius; [GPE] [GME]; a Cattell 1000 (top 20); known for: mechanics, laws of motion, gravitational theory, affinity chemistry, differential equations, optics; library=1,752 books, of which 369 were scientific works.
	James Maxwell (1831-1879)	=190-205	A dual scientific revolutions genius; [GPE]; known for: electromagnetic theory (electromagnetic force), kinetic theory, thermodynamics (graphical thermodynamics); intellectual giant to Einstein.
	Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519)	=200 =180 =220 =210	[GEE] [LPKE] [uberman]; a Cattell 1000 (top 100); known for: animal heat theory, art, engineering, warfare technology, flight; said to have utlilizied a "sleep formula", sleeping no more than four hours at a time, so to optimize his intellectual output; wrote in code, backwards and upside down, so that only those clever enough to look at the document in a mirror would be able to read it.
	Rudolf Clausius (1822-1888)	=190-205	A dual scientific revolutions genius; [GTE]; known for: thermodynamics (founder and greatest), entropy, kinetic theory; see: Euler genealogy to discern the significance and density of his influence.
	Gottfried Leibniz (1646-1716)	=194 =205 =182	[LUG] [LPKE] ; a Cattell 1000 (top 40); known for: differential equations, dynamics (vis viva, vis mortua); told the Queen of Prussia that in mathematics there was all previous history, from the beginning of the world, and then there was Newton; and that Newton was the better half. [23][24]
	Willard Gibbs (1839-1903)	=190-200	[GTE] [GCE] [GPE]; known for: chemical thermodynamics, statistical mechanics, vector analysis; quote: “[Many] Nobel Prizing-winning careers [have been] launched from a passing remark or footnote in Gibbs’ monumental masterpiece” (Frank Weinhold, 2009).
	Galileo Galilei (1564-1642) ↑	=183 =185 =180 =185-200	A dual scientific revolutions genius; [GPE]; a Cattell 1000 (top 50); known for: dynamics, vacuum theory, temperature, astronomy, heliocentric theory; intellectual giant to Einstein.
	Thomas Young (1773-1829)	=185-200	[LPKE] [polymath]; noted encyclopedist; library=1,000+ books; known for: energy, double slits, Rosetta Stone (translation).
	Hermann Helmholtz (1821-1894)	=190-210	[LUG];
	Ludwig Boltzmann (1844-1906)	=190-195	A dual scientific revolutions genius; formulator of the famous H-theorem model of entropy (1872), the seed to the 1901 later S = k ln W model of entropy; initiator of the "What is Life?"--in physical science terms--debate (see: theories of existence), via his infamous riddled postulate: 1886 postulate that "life is a struggle for entropy" (1886); initiator of the quantum hypothesis (quantum mechanics): “I see no reason why energy shouldn’t also be regarded as divided atomically” (1891) (see: energy element); hung himself (1906) as a result of prolonged attack by the energetics school of his usage of atomic theory to explain thermodynamics.
	Pierre Laplace (1749-1827) ↑	=190	Known for his famous Napoleon Laplace anecdote (1802), where when queried about God in the framework of the new celestial mechanics, famous replied ‘I had no need of that hypothesis’.
	Carl Gauss (1777-1855)	=250-300 =180-195	[LPKE]; known for: mathematics, astronomy, electromagnetics.
	Leonhard Euler (1707-1783) ↑	=180-200	[GME]; upgrade for his reciprocity relation (mathematical proof behind state functions, in particular entropy; see: Mathematical Introduction); see: Euler genealogy.
	Voltaire (1694-1778) ↑	=190 =200 =185-200	A Cattell 1000 (top 10); upgrade for his support of Jean Sales (IQ=?) and his human molecular hypothesis; known for: Newtonian mechanics, physics, literature, hmol philosophy, religious mythology; lover of Emilie Chatelet (IQ=185); very high emotional intelligence (a greatest philosopher ever candidate).
	Rene Descartes (1596-1650) ↑	=178 =180 =175	A Cattell 1000 (top 25); known for: Cartesian coordinate system, atomic theory revival (1637), vis viva theory (c.1640), the “I think, therefore I am” philosophy, automaton theory (mechanical theory of life), ethereal heat theory; intellectual giant to Newton.
	Nikola Tesla (1856-1943)	=230-310 =200 =140-160	Known for: defunct life theory, electricity, magnetism, human energy, radio technology, alternating current, electromagnetic motors; adhered to a Goethean philosophy, to the exclusion of all other philosophies.
	Ettore Majorana (1906-1938)	=183-200	Known for: human quantum mechanics, neutron discovery, exchange force, chemical bonding theory.
	Henri Poincare (1854-1912)	=180-195 =35	[LPKE]; known for: Poincare conjecture, relativity, thermodynamics, mathematics. [5]
	William Sidis (1898-1944)	=250-300 =200 =180-195	Known for: The Animate and the Inanimate (second law based "no origin" theory of life); the reserve energy theory was used in his upbringing; person behind the 10% myth and Good Will Hunting.
	Robert Hooke (1635-1703)	=185-195	A triple scientific revolutions genius; inventor of the pneumatical engine; intellectual giant to Newton.
	Emanuel Swedenborg (1688-1772)	=165 =210 =205	[LPKE]; a Cattell 1000 (top 90); known for: nebular hypothesis, atomic theory;
	Gilbert Lewis (1875-1946)	=190	[:35] Main pioneer of modern 20th century chemical thermodynamics; invented the dot structure pair model of chemical bonding; did some of the first work on relativity; coined the term photon; quote: “Lewis was the direct mentor of more Nobel Prize winners in chemistry than any Nobel Prize winner in any category” (Adriaan de Lange, 1998).
	Libb Thims (c.1975-)	=225+ =160-230 ±	[:1] Main initiator of human chemical thermodynamics—the only theory common to adulthood IQ=225+ geniuses—a very rarified group, inclusive of: Johann Goethe (IQ=230), William Sidis (IQ=195, 300), and Christopher Hirata (IQ=190, 225); adheres to a Goethean philosophy, to the exclusion of all other philosophies (similar to Tesla (IQ=195)); noted for discerning the “defunct theory of life” solution to existence (2009); a theory also independently arrived at, in 1925, by Tesla (IQ=195); a scientific revolutions—Goethean revolution—genius (IQAVG = 189); a considered-to-be polymath (IQAVG = 189)—quote: “Thims’ edits are far and wide. Unless Physchem is an incredible polymath, I doubt he would be able to pick up on all the BS a Thims-type editor introduces. That’s not knocking Physchem, I don’t think there is anyone who could deal with the range” (Keith Henson, 2007); quote: “I stumbled onto your website by accident but I have to confess this might be one of the most stunning undiscovered intellectual achievements of the 21st century. I have browsed through your wiki and I cannot express how tragic it must be to a man in your position—to be a pioneering thinker yet to be rejected by an uptight academic community with neither the depth nor will to understand your unique work, defending their own turf like dogs. I can only compare you to the many other pioneering heroes of science, Newton (IQ=215), Einstein (IQ=220), Tesla (IQ=195), men (IQAVG = 210) who like you blazed their own paths but were too victims of their own genius, only to be validated years after their death. Perhaps one day historians will look back and have a chuckle—that the pioneer of enthropology published by a vanity press in a book resembling a third rate romance” (Steven Pierce, 2009); quote: “Thims: the great oracle and developer of human thermodynamics—the philosophical revolution of the 21st century. A genius of outstanding stature and originator of many concepts in human chemistry” (Mark Janes, 2011); quote: "I think the guy narrating this video has the highest IQ" (shown above), 27+ community thumbs up votes on comment (YouTube (2012): "IQ: 200+ | Smartest person ever"video).
	Sadi Carnot (1796-1832)	=180-195	Initiator of the science of thermodynamics; quotes: “Sadi Carnot was, perhaps, the greatest genius, in the department of physical science at least, that this century has produced” (Robert Thurston, 1890); “The most original work ever written in the physical sciences, with a core of abstraction comparable to the best of Galileo” (Tom Shachtman, 1999); son of Ecole Polytechnic founder Lazare Carnot (IQ=175).
	Christiaan Huygens (1629-1695) ↑	=175	Mathematical mentor to Gottfried Leibniz (IQ=182-205) (see: Euler genealogy); liaison between the vacuum work of Otto Guericke and the invention of the steam engine, via his gunpowder engine research with his associate Denis Papin (Papin engine, 1690); determined that the quantity mv² (later called vis viva by Leibniz) remains constant during perfectly elastic collisions; noted for his wave theory of light (1678), in opposition to Isaac Newton’s (IQ=190-200) later corpuscular theory of light.
	Aristotle (384-322BC)	=190 =190-210	[LPKE]; a Cattell 1000 (top 10) [7]
	Erwin Schrödinger (1887-1961)	=185-195	Known as a polymath (IQAVG=196) (Schrodinger: Centenary Celebration of a Polymath, 1989); his rather unique formulation of 1926 “Schrodinger equation” is the capstone to quantum mechanics, in the derivation of which he combined De Broglie’s 1924 electron wave postulate together with the Lagrangian classical version (K + U = E) of the conservation of energy of a system, to synthesize a “wave equation” that that represents mathematically the distribution of a charge of an electron distributed through space, being spherically symmetric or prominent in certain directions, i.e. directed valence bonds, which gave the correct values for spectral lines of the hydrogen atom; his 1943 “What is Life?” lecture-turned-book (a) seeded the later discovery of DNA (in 1953 by James Watson (IQ=?) and Francis Crick (IQ=173)) and (b) launched the what is life: thermodynamic-view debate (see: theories of existence), wherein he famous gave a derivation that "life" is something that feeds on negative entropy; a view that, however, soon came under rigorous attack (e.g. Linus Pauling (IQ=190)), after which he had to append an infamous “Note to Chapter 6”, explaining that had he been catering to a rigorous hard science audience that he would have “turned the discussion to free energy”; a very-riddled proposition, more-correct than the latter position, but one that eventually led to the “defunct theory of life” (Thims, 2009)—the discernment that “life” is something that does not exist (atoms and molecules, of which humans are the latter variety (i.e. human molecules) of, are “not alive”, and cannot be made to come alive (or die) or given life—as the olden-days creation by breath (divine creation), creation by spark, creation by heat, Urey-Miller creation, or auto-catalytic creation into perpetual motion, etc.., theories would have things.
	Hero of Alexandria (c.10-70AD)	=180-195	[GEE] Physicist, top five greatest engineers ever (EngineeringDaily.net), and top forty greatest mathematician ever (W.C. Eells, 1962), noted for: his circa 50AD Pneumatica, in which, he overview of the physics of Strato and Ctesibius, outlines an atomic theory in which matter consists of particles mixed with distributed vacua, and in which he describes how to make an aeolipile; may have used a type of Philo thermometer (240BC) in his experimental work; was said to have openly challenge the nature abhors a vacuum belief, but his attempts to create an artificial vacuum failed; invent and build the world’s first working heat engine, namely a steam engine that opens temple doors; built a number of famous “automata”, wind turbines, and hydrostatic fountains; said to have discovered imaginary numbers; his Pneumatica was translated by Gottfried Leibniz (IQ=200) and also read by Denis Papin (IQ=), likely being influential in the inception of the Papin engine, the first piston and cylinder steam engine; his works, along with the works of Aristarchus of Samos (IQ=?), Hypatia (IQ=185), Sappho (IQ=?), and Berossus (IQ=?) and his Babylonaica, are said to be the five most “tantalizing losses from the Library of Alexandria”. [30]
	Linus Pauling (1901-1994) ↑	=160 =180-195	[GCE] [DNP]; startup chemical company (before age 15); BS in chemical engineering age 21 (1922), during which time he became aware of the work of Gilbert Lewis (IQ=190) and Irving Langmuir on the electronic structure of atoms and their bonding to form molecules, PhD in physical chemistry and mathematical physics (1925), then (1926) to Europe on a Guggenheim Fellowship, to study under Arnold Sommerfeld (IQ=180) in Munich, Niels Bohr (IQ=185) in Copenhagen, and Erwin Schrödinger (IQ=190) in Zürich, during which time he became interested in how quantum mechanics might be applied in his chosen field of interest, the electronic structure of atoms and molecules; also, in Zürich, Pauling was also exposed to one of the first quantum mechanical analyses of bonding in the hydrogen molecule, done by Walter Heitler and Fritz London; after which he became one of the first scientists in the field of quantum chemistry and a pioneer in the application of quantum theory to the structure of molecules; his 1938 The Nature of the Chemical Bond has been referred to as the “bible” of modern chemistry [19]; gets upgrade for, in 1989, ripping apart Schrodinger's thermodynamic views on life (see: Note to Chapter 6).
	Richard Feynman (1918-1988)	=190 =125	Motto: "believe in the atomic hypothesis" (Feynman time capsule wisdom); known for: quantum electrodynamics; see also: Feynman problems solving algorithm. [4]
	Enrico Fermi (1901-1954)	=175-195 =164	Known as the “last universal physicist”, in the tradition of great men of the 19th century, and “the last person who knew all of physics of his day”. [17]
	Pierre Gassendi (1592-1655) ↑	=185	Was one of the first to revive the atomic theory work of Epicurus (IQ=), writing a set of books on the philosophical implications of this subject, supposedly written to counter the philosophical views of Rene Descartes (IQ=195); was the first to coin the term “molecule”, which he described as “fitted together atoms”; gave one of the first chemical creation models: “atoms” → “molecules” → “small structures similar to molecules” description of evolution (a forerunner to the later human molecular hypothesis (1789) of Jean Sales (IQ=).
	Blaise Pascal (1623-1662) ↓	=195	A Cattell 1000 (top 70); did some of the first nature abhors a vacuum experiments (1646); note: after his 1654 brush with death (age 31) he "found God" and thereafter seems to have lost his ability to think objectively and productively (relating all his theories to the Bible).
	Max Planck (1858-1947)	=180-195	A dual scientific revolutions genius; a top three greatest physicist of all time; known for: launching the quantum mechanics (quantum revolution), radiation thermodynamics, and for solving the ultraviolet catastrophe.
	Nicolaus Copernicus (1473-1543) ↑	=173 =160 =185 =100-110	Known for: his heliocentric universe model, which launched the scientific revolution (Copernican revolution).
	Christopher Hirata (1983-) ↑	=225 =170-195	Youngest medalist ever (age 13) of the International Physics Olympiad; upgrade for his circa age 17 derived "relationship physics" version of human chemical thermodynamics (a very niche subject strangely common to IQ=225+ thinkers: Goethe, Sidis, Thims); astrophysics; high emotional intelligence.
	George Green (1793-1841)	=170-190	At age 35, a self-educated miller (read books via the Nottingham Subscription Library), having had almost no formal schooling, self-published his 1828 “An Essay on the Application of Mathematical Analysis to the Theories of Electricity and Magnetism”, wherein starting from the work of Pierre Laplace (IQ=190), he introduced the concept of “potential function”, i.e. the potential as a function of Cartesian coordinates V(x,y,z), particularly the potential energy of an arbitrary static distribution of electric charges; he also derived the divergence theorem independent of Carl Gauss (IQ=195); is the eponym of the Gauss-Green-Stokes theorem (fundamental theorem of calculus).
	Archimedes (287-212BC)	=190	Known for: hydrostatics, statics, and an explanation of the principle of the lever; one of fabled "last persons to know everything".
	Hugo Grotius (1583-1645) ↓	=200
	Thomas Wolsey (1472-1530) ↓	=200
	Athanasius Kircher (1602-1680)	=170-190	One of fabled "last persons to know everything"; Johann Goethe (IQ=230) commented, during his researches of optics and other subjects, “thus, entirely unexpected, Father Kircher is here again”; was present at the 1641 Gasparo Berti test of the "nature abhors a vacuum" experiment; coined the term electromagnetism; the first Egyptologist.
	Joseph Lagrange (1736-1813)	=185	Noted for the Lagrangian formulation of the energy or force quantification of a system; see also: Euler genealogy.
	Emilie Chatelet (1706-1749)	=170-190	Title: "smartest female ever"; combined the theories of Gottfried Leibniz and the brass ball clay surface experimental work of Willem Gravesande to show that the energy of a moving object is proportional not to its velocity, as had previously been believed by Newton, Voltaire and others, but to the square of its velocity; gave one of the first formulations of the conservation of energy; ran one of the biggest research facilities in France.
	Robert Boyle (1627-1691) ↑	=160 =170-185	A dual scientific revolutions genius; corroborator with Isaac Newton (IQ=225) in the initiation of affinity chemistry; supervised Robert Hooke (IQ=195) in the construction of the pneumatical engine, the experimental device that led to the discovery of Boyle's law, the first gas law.
	William Thomson (1824-1907)	=185	Known for: absolute temperature, thermodynamics; Glasgow University age 10; defended Joseph Fourier’s 1822 theory of heat over that of Philip Kelland’s 1837 heat theory (age 13); by age 15-16; published first scientific papers by age 17; in 1845 (age 21), after graduating second wrangler (Cambridge), simultaneous unearthed the then unknown and forgotten memoirs of Sadi Carnot’s 1824 thermodynamics memoir and George Green’s 1828 memoir on the mathematics of electricity and magnetism, now known as two of the most-original works in science; and gave the first mathematical development of Michael Faraday's (IQ=170-180) idea that electric induction takes place through an intervening medium.
	Otto Guericke (1602-1686)	=175-195	See: Thomas Coulson’s 1943 booklet “Otto von Guericke: a Neglected Genius”; the originality, variety, polymathly, and influence of Guericke's contributions are difficult to summarize in short; to say the least: he is the person behind the invention of the vacuum engine and the so-called: “first and greatest of the electrical discoverers”.
	Arthur Schopenhauer (1788-1860)	=170-190	His two-volume, 1,100+ page The World as Will and Representation (1814, 1844) built on on Goethe's human elective affinities theory to explain will in a universal manner, similar to Goethe, e.g. in terms of the "will of the copper" atom in electrochemical reaction.
	Stephen Hawking (1942-)	=160-190 =180 =160	Noted: black hole thermodynamics; public advocate of atheism; (link).
	Hypatia (360-415)	=170-210 =180-200 =175-192	Known as: the last great polymath of the Library of Alexandria (before it was burned); said to have promoted and experimentally-proved heliocentrism and was eventually dismembered for this; one of fabled "last persons to know everything". [7]
	William Shakespeare (1564-1616) ↓	=210 =175-190	A Cattell 1000 (top 10); one of Nietzsche’s uberman (IQ=186+); known for: literature, literature chemistry, Promethean heat; very high emotional intelligence.
	Euclid (c.340-280BC)	=182	His geometry treatise Elements was influential to many, including: James Thomson (mathematician), father to noted child prodigy William Thomson (IQ=185), who edited a version of Elements (1834); James Maxwell (IQ=210), who mentions Euclid in his last-dying poem “A Paradoxical Ode”, Albert Einstein (IQ=220), who at age 12 was given a text on Euclidean geometry, which he called the “holy geometry book”; to Sarah Sidis (tutored by Boris Sidis; mother to William Sidis (IQ=195)) who in 1891 (age 17) "propped Euclid up above the sink, and studied while she washed the dishes"; and to Yevgeny Zamyatin, who intersperses his 1923 literature thermodynamics work with mentions of Euclid
	Humphry Davy (1778-1829)	=185	Noted for his 1799 “ice-rubbing experiments”, one of the first mechanical equivalent of heat experiments; for his 1806 lecture on electricity and chemical affinity; for his 1813 “point atom” theory of a human; and for the discovery of a number of elements.
	John Neumann (1903-1957) ↑	=163-180	Upgrade for human thermodynamics variables (1934) and for free energy automaton theory (c.1945); known for quantum thermodynamics.
	John Stuart Mill (1806-1873)	=183 =180 =185 =200	One of fabled "last persons to know everything"; known for: political philosophy, utilitarianism; was a split-brainer who could write two different languages simultaneously, one in each hand;
	Jean D'Alembert (1717-1783)	=185	Known for d’Alembert’s principle; PhD advisor to Pierre Laplace (IQ=195) (see: Euler genealogy); noted encyclopedist: his 1772 Encyclopedie, co-written with Denis Diderot (IQ=165), is said to mark “end of an area in which a single human being was able to comprehend the totality of knowledge” (see: "last persons to know everything").
	Marie Curie (1867-1934) ↑	=180 =200	[DNP] [GPE]; Nobel Prize in physics (1903) for the discovery of radioactivity; Nobel Prize in chemistry (1911) for the isolation of pure radium.
	Auguste Comte (1798-1857)	=185	A Cattell 1000 (top 100); one of the early pioneers of human physics (see: HP pioneers); outlined the view that 'social physics' needs a Galileo-Newton type description.
	Alexander Humboldt (1769-1859)	=185	One of fabled "last persons to know everything"; a Cattell 1000 (top 100); was one of the first to propose that South America and Africa were both joined; in 1797, in Jena, with his brother Wilhelm (IQ=175), Friedrich Schiller (IQ=175), and Johann Goethe (IQ=230), the four discussed, in Goethe's own words, “all of nature from the perspectives of philosophy and science”.
	Paolo Sarpi (1552-1623) ↓
	Srinivasa Ramanujan (1887-1920)	=160-185 =190-210	Self-taught mathematics prodigy and autodidact who, with almost no formal training in pure mathematics, made extraordinary contributions to mathematical analysis, number theory, infinite series and continued fractions; G.H. Hardy ranked him in the same league as Gauss (IQ=195), Euler (IQ=195), Cauchy (IQ=), Newton (IQ=210), and Archimedes (IQ=190). [6][14]
	Niels Bohr (1885-1962)		His 1913 “Bohr model” of the atom proposed that normally each electron in an atom is confined to a particular electron shell or what he called “orbits” (see: molecular orbital theory), which may be spherical as well as elliptical, but that—in very a very science-redefining way—an electron can move or "jump" between adjacent orbits or orbitals only when the atom (or electron?) emits or absorbs a certain quantum amount (energy element amount) of radiant energy, of the amount ‘hν’, where h is Planck’s constant and ν (nu) is the frequency of the electromagnetic energy or light emitted or absorbed.
	George Berkeley (1685-1753) ↓	=190
	Friedrich Schelling (1775-1854) ↓	=190	Norwegian literary theorist Frode Pedersen (2011) argues that Schelling's natural philosophy theory influenced Goethe and his chemical philosophy theory.
	Germaine Stael (1766-1817) ↑	=180	Banned from France in 1803 by Napoleon (IQ=175), for publishing her controversial novel Delphine, after which she migrated to Germany and entered into the Goethe-Schiller circle; upgrade for commenting favorably on Goethe’s Elective Affinities.
	Antoine Arnauld (1612-1694) ↓	=190
	Albrecht Haller (1708-1777) ↓	=190
	Philipp Melanchthon (1497-1560) ↓	=190
	William Pitt (the Younger) (1759-1806) ↓	=190	A Cattell 1000 (top 20).
	Filippo Brunelleschi (1377-1446) ↓	=190
	Barthold Niebuhr (1776-1831)	=185	Part of Goethe's 1803 Weimar circle.
	William Hamilton (1805-1865) ↑	=175-190 =170	Known for the Hamiltonian formulation of the force function (energy) of a dynamic system; multilingual by 5; knew thirteen languages by 13; was correcting errors in the work of Pierre Laplace (IQ=190) at 15; became an astronomy professor while still a university student. [8] His energy formulation was cited by Rudolf Clausius as a precursor, role model, or near synonym to his formulation of internal energy.
	Werner Heisenberg (1901-1976) ↑	=173	Known for: uncertainty principle, exchange force.
	Immanuel Kant (1724-1804) ↑	=175	One of fabled "last persons to know everything"; an oft-cited "smartest person ever" missing candidate; a Cattell 1000 (top 40)
	Francis Bacon (1561-1626)	=180	One of fabled "last persons to know everything"; a Cattell 1000 (top 10); known for introducing the scientific method.
	Arnold Sommerfeld (1868-1951)	=175-185	[:81] Nominated a record eighty-one times for the Nobel Prize, and served as PhD supervisor for more Nobel Prize winners in physics than any other supervisor before or since; introduced the 2nd quantum number (azimuthal quantum number), 4th quantum number (spin quantum number), the fine-structure constant, and pioneered X-ray wave theory; in an odd twist of fate, in April of 1951, in the midst of writing a series of physics books: mechanics (1943), electrodynamics (1948), optics (1950), he had begun the writing of the hardest subject of all—thermodynamics—and after famously commenting, in rather frank and truthful terms, that: “thermodynamics is a funny subject. The first time you go through it, you don't understand it at all. The second time you go through it, you think you understand it, except for one or two small points. The third time you go through it, you know you don't understand it, but by that time you are so used to it, it doesn't bother you anymore”, he was injured in traffic accident, while walking his grandchildren—during which time his end came.
	Johannes Kepler (1571-1630) ↑	=175	One of fabled "last persons to know everything"; known for his “laws of planetary motion”, which provided one of the foundations for Isaac Newton's (IQ=215) theory of universal gravitation.
	Sigmund Freud (1856-1939) ↑	=175-185 =156	Used the chemical thermodynamic bound energy, free energy, and conservation of energy principles of Hermann Helmholtz (IQ=190) to script out a 24-volume collected works set, that now call "psychology" (see: A Project for Scientific Psychology, 1895); very high emotional intelligence. [11]
	Plato (c.423-348BC)	=180	A Cattell 1000 (top 10).
	Alexander the Great (356-323BC)	=180	A Cattell 1000 (top 20); was tutored by the famed philosopher Aristotle (IQ=190); by age of thirty, he had created one of the largest empires in ancient history; established the Library of Alexandria, unified Greek science with Egyptian theology to form Christianity.
	Friedrich Nietzsche (1844-1900)	=180	First to proclaim “God is dead” (1882) and to postulate an “uberman” (1883), a person with an IQ of 180+ (according to Bertrand Russell (IQ=180)), who would eventually become the replacement model for the “idea of God” (theory of God); role models of whom, according to Nietzsche, are: Socrates (IQ=160), Caesar (IQ=170), Da Vinci (IQ=205), Michelangelo (IQ=180), Shakespeare (IQ=185), Goethe (IQ=230), and Napoleon (IQ=175), or a person who would become a synthesis of these seven intellectual giants (IQave=186).
	Thomas Jefferson (1743-1826) ↓	=195	One of fabled "last persons to know everything"; a Cattell 1000 (top 90); library=6,487 books; known for: American government founding and atheism advocation; was a polymath who spoke five languages and was deeply interested in science and political philosophy; he once stated "I cannot live without books”.
	Bertrand Russell (1872-1970)	=180	20th century's greatest atheism advocate; considered his IQ to be 180, which he defined as the uberman cutoff IQ.
	Ludwig Wittgenstein (1889-1951) ↓	=190	Supposedly, commented or critiqued Arthur Schopenhauer’s Goethean-based theory of an “elective affinity will” or “will to power” (attacking one’s fears). [26] His two biggest works are Philosophical Investigations and Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus, which according to some “show more raw intellect than anything Shakespeare has written”; some have ranked him above Bertrand Russell. He is also noted for his atomic fact model of language units and molecular hypothesis version of paragraphs. Downgrade for having so many “God-this” and “God-that” quotes attributed to him. [27]
	Thomas Edison (1847-1931) ↓	=195	Invented: practical light bulb, phonograph, and motion picture camera; and originated the concept and implementation of electric-power generation and distribution to homes, businesses, and factories.
	Mary Somerville (1780-1872)	=175-185	She schooled Ada Lovelace (IQ=160) in mathematics and science, introducing her to Charles Baggage (IQ=?) and Michael Faraday (IQ=180); Joseph Laplace (IQ=190) commented on her: "there have been only three women who have understood me. These are yourself, Caroline Herschel, and a Mrs Grieg of whom I know nothing."
	John Bardeen (1908-1991)	=175-185	[DNP] Nobel Prize physics (1956) for the invention of the transistor; Nobel Prize physics (1972) for the theory of superconductivity; see True Genius: the Life and Science of John Bardeen: the Only Winner of Two Nobel Prizes in Physics (2002).
	Frederick Sanger (1918-)	=175-185	[DNP]; Nobel Prize in chemistry (1958) for the structure of the insulin molecule; Nobel Prize in chemistry for virus nucleotide sequencing; quote: “I and my colleagues have been engaged in the pursuit of knowledge.”
	Imhotep (2635-2595BC)	=165-180 =170-200	Was the world's first named architect who built Egypt's first pyramid; often recognized as the world's first doctor, a priest, scribe, sage, poet, astrologer, vizier, and chief minister. [7]
	Jorge Borges (1899-1986)	=182
	Arthur Doyle (1859-1930)	=182	Noted: Sherlock Holmes writer.
	Marion Tinsley (1927-1995)	=182	Noted: checker player.
	Lord Byron (1788-1824)	=180	A Cattell 1000 (top 30); father of Ada Lovelace (IQ=160); Tom Stoppard’s 1993 juxtaposition of times play Arcadia compares Byron, in a way, to Goethe (IQ=230), intermixed with heat, sex, the second law, and the “attraction that Newton left out” (chemical affinity/human chemical affinity).
	Leon Alberti (1404-1472)	=180
	Alexander Bell (1847-1922)	=180	Inventor of the telephone.
	Nicolas Malebranche (1638-1715)	=180	In 1664, he chanced to read René Descartes' (IQ=195) Traité del l'Homme, which moved him so deeply that (it is said) he was repeatedly compelled by palpitations of the heart to lay aside his reading; and was from that hour consecrated to Cartesian philosophy; his end was said to have been hastened by a metaphysical argument into which he had been drawn in the course of an interview with George Berkeley (IQ=185); the two, Descartes and Malebranche, were said to have inspired the development of physiocracy. [13] Commented derisively on Newton (in respect to his Opticks) “though Newton is no physicist, his book is very interesting” (c.1706). [23]
	Pitt (the Elder)	=180
	Duchamp	=180
	Sinan	=180
	Carnegie	=180
	Dal	=180
	Phidias	=180
	Pavlov	=180
	Khan	=180
	Stravnsky	=180
	Michelangelo Buonarroti (1475-1564)	=178 =180 =175	A Cattell 1000 (top 30); one of Nietzsche’s uberman (IQ=186+).
	Desiderius Erasmus (1466-1537)	=178 =180 =175	A Cattell 1000 (top 60); one of fabled "last persons to know everything".
	John Milton (1608-1674)	=177 =180 =173	One of fabled "last persons to know everything"; a Cattell 1000 (top 20); known for: Paradise Lost.
	Campanella ↓	=185
	Leopardi ↓	=185
	Mirabeau ↓	=185
	Marquis Condorcet (1743-1794)	=180
	Jeremy Bentham (1748-1832)	=180
	Hans Orsted (1777-1851)	=180	Discovered that that electric currents create magnetic fields; mentor to Ludwig Colding; supposedly shaped post-Kantian philosophy.
	David Hume (1711-1776)	=180
	William Whewell (1794-1866)	=180	Noted for his involvement in the 1833 Whewell-Coleridge debate, with English romantic philosopher Samuel Coleridge (IQ=175), revolving around the question of what exactly someone who works ‘in the real sciences’, as Coleridge had phrased it, should be called, and what exactly are the real sciences, in the context of the tree of knowledge; a result of which Whewell coined the term "scientist".
	Arago	=180
	Bailly	=180
	Bossuet	=180
	Brougham	=180
	Chattterton	=180
	Fenelon	=180
	Gibbon	=180
	Victor Hugo (1802-1885)	=180
	Musset	=180
	Peel	=180
	Pope	=180
	Tasso	=180
	Joseph Scaliger (1540-1609)	=180

	Antoine Lavoisier (1743-1794) ↑	=170
	Michael Faraday (1791-1867) ↑	=172 =170 =180	Known for: electromagnetic induction, chemistry; largely self-taught through reading of books at a bindery he worked at as a child; intellectual giant to Einstein.
	Friedrich Schiller (1759-1805) ↑	=165	A Cattell 1000 (top 80); during the last seventeen years of his existence (1788–1805), he struck up a productive, if complicated, friendship with Johann Goethe (IQ=230) on philosophy, science, aesthetics, and satirical poetry, among many other subjects; in 1797, in Jena, he introduced the Humboldt brothers, Wilhelm (IQ=175) and Alexander (IQ=185), to Goethe, a circle of intellect wherein they discussed, in Goethe's own words, “all of nature from the perspectives of philosophy and science”; in 1799, he was the first person to whom Goethe confided his budding human elective affinities (in criticism of the lack of chemical realism in the literature work of Prosper Crebillon).
	Niccolo Machiavelli (1469-1527) ↑	=165	A Cattell 1000 (top 90); upgrade for his "end justifies the means philosophy" (Machiavellian philosophy), as detailed in his The Prince.
	Herman Boerhaave (1668-1738) ↑	=165	Noted for: Boerhaave’s law, the volume expansion law precursor to caloric theory; for comparing the force of affinity with “love, if love be the desire for marriage” (1732); mentor to Andrew Plummer, whose ideas on attractive and repulsive forces involved in chemical affinity had influence on his successors William Cullen and Joseph Black; and for his 1736 ball and ring experiments with Willem Gravesande (as reported by Voltaire (IQ=190), a study of his during this time).
	Lazare Carnot (1753-1823) ↑	=170	Founder of the Ecole Polytechnique; father to Sadi Carnot, initiator of thermodynamics.
	Benedict Spinoza (1632-1677)	=175 =175 =175	Known for: natural philosophy.
	Joseph Gay-Lussac (1778-1850)	=175	Noted for his formulation of Charles law (volume-temperature gas law) (1802), Gay-Lussac’s law (pressure-temperature gas law), both precursors to the ideal gas law, and the law of combining volumes (1808).
	Benjamin Franklin (1706-1790)	=173 =160 =185	A Cattell 1000 (top 50); a so-called "last universal genius" candidate.
	Charles Darwin (1809-1882) ↑	=169 =165 =173	Known for: the theory of evolution (by natural selection); for his warm pond model of the origin of life.
	George Eliot (1819-1880)	=173 =185 =160	Known for: literature and for her telling quote: "Goethe (IQ=230) was the last true polymath to walk the earth."
	Justus Liebig (1803-1873) ↓	=180	Top five chemists of history (according to James Partington); first to publish Robert Mayer’s 1842 controversial mechanical equivalent of heat paper (previously rejected elsewhere); his use of vitalism (Animal Chemistry, 1842), which was quickly attacked by the Helmholtz school, gives him a down grade.
	Napoleon Bonaparte (1769-1821) ↑ ↑	=163 =145 =180	A Cattell 1000 (top 10); One of Nietzsche’s uberman (IQ=186+); was the first to systematically query all leading French scientists about theory atheism beliefs (see: Pierre Laplace (IQ=190)); high military IQ; Goethe and Napoleon were mutual devotees of each other; read Goethe’s (IQ=230) Sorrows of Young Werther over six times during his various campaigns; was on a philosophical bent ascertain (or disprove) the theory or location of the soul in the context of modern physical science.
	Johann Herder (1744-1803) ↑	=165	Noted for his evolution theory of language; he was the person to whom Goethe (IQ=230) wrote in 1784 that he had found morphological evidence of human evolution (discovered the human intermaxillary bone), of humans and lower animals being related; a date which marks the start of evolution theory, according to Darwin (IQ=175).
	Terence Tao (1975-)	=220-230 =211 =170-190	Known for: mathematics, green–tao theorem; child prodigy; Fields Medal age 31.
	Grigori Perelman (1966-)	=150-180	A recluse, noted for having turned down the Fields Medal; outside of the mainstream mathematics community, who in 2006 solved the Poincare conjecture, originally proposed in 1904 Henri Poincaré (IQ=195), the most famous open problem in topology (video).
	Elizabeth I (1533-1603) ↓	=180
	Bill Gates (1955-)	=173 160-180	Like Linus Pauling (IQ=180), started first company when he was a teenager; quote (age 17): "I will be millionaire by age 30"; dropped out of Harvard December 1774 (age 19) to, in his own words “write really interesting software that lots of people would buy” and left decisively at that moment because “we were afraid if we waited, someone else would beat us” (GatesNotes.com) [28]; founded Microsoft (age 20); net worth of $101 billion (age 44); high pure and applied entrepreneurial IQ in computer technology. [18]
	Warren Buffett (1930-)	=170-185	At age 16, had read at least one hundred books on business (see: Buffett number); shortly thereafter, he entered the Wharton School of Finance, wherein upon arrival he reported that ‘he knew more than the professors’; on a return trip home, he was warned not to neglect his studies, to which he replied insouciantly: ‘all I need to do is open the book the night before and drink a big bottle of Pepsi-Cola and I’ll make 100’; born in the great depression, has gone on to become the world's leading financial mogul, wherein, from 1965 to 2005 has produced an annual average return of 21.5%, a feat unsurpassed, becoming, along with Gates, one of the world's top five wealthiest persons; quote: “you don’t need to be a rocket scientist. Investing is not a game where the guy with the 160 IQ beats the guy with the 130 IQ.” [29]
	Wilhelm Humboldt (1767-1835)	=175	In 1797, in Jena, with his brother Alexander (IQ=185), Friedrich Schiller (IQ=175), and Johann Goethe (IQ=230), the four discussed, in Goethe's own words, “all of nature from the perspectives of philosophy and science”.
	Dante	=175
	Homer	=175
	Picasso	=175
	1st Ch'in Emperor	=175
	Suli	=175
	Robert Bunsen (1811-1899)	=175	Noted for his investigations, with Gustav Kirchhoff, of the emission spectra of heated elements; the eponym of the Bunsen burner.
	Edmund Spenser (1552-1559)	=175
	J. Q. Adams	=175
	Agassiz	=175
	Bichat	=175
	Buggon	=175
	Calvin	=175
	Cardan	=175
	Samuel Coleridge (1772-1834)	=175	Noted for his involvement in the 1833 Whewell-Coleridge debate, with English science historian William Whewell (IQ=180), revolving around the question of what exactly someone who works ‘in the real sciences’, as Coleridge had phrased it, should be called, and what exactly are the real sciences, in the context of the tree of knowledge; a result of which the term "scientist" was coined.
	Cuvier	=175
	Ben Jonson (1573-1637)	=175
	Lamennais	=175
	Macaulay	=175
	Robert Southey	=175
	Thou	=175
	Lope de Vega	=175
	Friedrich Wolf	=175
	Francis Crick (1916-2004)	=173	Co-discoverer with James Watson (IQ=), in 1953, of the structure of the DNA molecule.
	Stephenson	=173
	Aeschylus	=173
	Euripides	=173
	Lao-Tzu (c.625-575BC)	=173	Supposed author of Tao Te Ching, the book that founded of Taoism ("Daoism"); possibly not a real person, but rather a synthesis of mythologies and legends, similar to the way Jesus is a re-write of Osiris mythology (Ra theology).
	Max Weber (1864-1920) ↑	=165	One of the first to incorporate Johann Goethe's (IQ=230) elective affinities theory in sociology.
	Thomas Hobbes (1588-1679) ↑ ↑	=165	A Cattell 1000 (top 70); his 1651 Leviathan, which draws analogies between laws of mechanics and features of society, indirectly advocated atheism and initiated the field of human physics (see: HT pioneers).
	James Watt (1736-1819) ↑	=165	Central steam engine developer; the main person behind the industrial revolution; and a central figure in thermodynamics.
	Adam Smith (1723-1790)	=170	An early HP pioneer, whose 1759 invisible hand theory and 1776 Wealth of Nations were said to have been inspired by Newtonian mechanics.
	Raphael (1483-1520)	=170 =170 =170	A Cattell 1000 (top 30).
	Julius Caesar (I00-44BC)	=170	A Cattell 1000 (top 10); one of Nietzsche’s uberman (IQ=186+).
	Stephen Baccus (1969-) ↑	=190	His IQ was estimated by psychologist Aaron Stern (father of child prodigy Edith Stern [IQ=203]), following an age 10 interview; BS computer science, University of Miami; entered University of Miami’s law school at 14, graduating at 16, making a name for himself by successfully suing the State of New York for its age restrictions on the bar exam after receiving a special waiver in Florida; began practicing law at 17; MS computer science from NYU age 18; made partner in a firm by 19; PhD in neuroscience age 29 at University of Miami; currently neurobiology professor at Stanford Medical School.
	Confucius (551-479BC)	=170	A Cattell 1000 (top 30).
	Norman Schwarzkopf (1934-)	=170	Noted gulf war general. [18]
	81. Atterbury (IQ=170) 82. Bentley (IQ=170) 83. Calderon (IQ=170) 84. Canope (IQ=170) 85. Chalmers (IQ=170) 86. Chalmers (IQ=170) 87. Constant (IQ=170) 88. Fichte (IQ=170) 89. Handel (IQ=170) 90. Irving W. (IQ=170) 91. Kotzebue (IQ=170) 92. Longfellow (IQ=170) 93. Luther (IQ=170) 94. Marat (IQ=170) 95. Metastasio (IQ=170) 96. Napier (IQ=170) 97. Penn (IQ=170) 98. Racine (IQ=170) 100. Renan (IQ=170) 101. Reuchlin (IQ=170) 102. Robespierre (IQ=170) 104. Strauss (IQ=170) 105. Tennyson (IQ=170) 106. Turgot (IQ=170) 107. Velasquez (IQ=170) 108. Vergniaud (IQ=170) 109. Wagner (IQ=170)
	Jons Berzelius (1779-1848) ↑	=160	Upgrade for his split affinities theory (influential to Goethe's human elective affinity theory)
	Denis Diderot (1713-1784)	=165	Noted encyclopedist (Encyclopedie (1751-1772), co-written with Jean d’Almbert (IQ=185)).
	Sofia Kovalevskaya (1850-1891)	=170 =156
	Theodore Kaczynski (1942-) ↓	=167 (fifth grade)	Known as: the unibomber (downgrade). [8]
	Charles Dickens (1812-1870)	=165 =180 =150
	Joseph Priestley (1733-1804)	=165
	Ludwig Beethoven (1770-1827)	=165 =165 =165	Known for: classical music; met with Goethe.
	Ralph Emerson (1803-1822) ↑	=155	Noted Goethean philosopher; quote: “In every work of genius, we recognize our own rejected thoughts; they come back to us with a certain alienated majesty.”
	Francis Galton (1822-1911) ↓↓	=200	His IQ estimate was super over-estimate, based on an age four letter he wrote to his sister, that he could read any English book, multiply, and knew the pence table; quote: “God alone knows how [Terman] estimated Galton’s IQ as 200” (Peter Medawar)
	Georg Hegel (1770-1831)	=165	Noted philosopher; his 1807 Phenomenology of Mind employed the concept of kraft (force).
	Marconi	=165	Competitor with Nikola Tesla (IQ=195) for the patent for radio technology.
	Wright	=165
	Thomas Aquinas	=165
	William Herschel (1738-1822)	=165	Noted astronomer.
	Johann Bach (1685-1750)	=165 =165 =165
	Carl Linnaeus (1707-1778)	=165	Noted for his Linnaean taxonomy, the first general classification scheme for so-called living things.
	Joseph Lister	=165
	Benjamin Carson (1951-)	=140-170	Raised by a illiterate single mother he would go on to become one of the most celebrated neurosurgeons of the world; director of pediatric neurosurgery of Johns Hopkins by 33; and in 1987, made medical history by being the first surgeon in the world to successfully separate siamese twins (the Binder twins) conjoined at the back of the head (link).
	Wren	=165
	Brunel	=165
	Sun Tzu	=165
	Sappho	=165
	Walter Raleigh (1552-1618)	=165
	117. Addison (IQ=165) 118. Bayle (IQ=165) 119. Beaumarchais (IQ=165) 120. Beza (IQ=165) 121. Bronte, C. (IQ=165) 122. Burnet (IQ=165) 123. Canning (IQ=165) 124. DeFoe (IQ=165) 125. Disraeli (IQ=165) 126. Fielding (IQ=165) 127. Fouche (IQ=165) 128. Guicciardini (IQ=165) 129. Guizot (IQ=165) 130. Guizot (IQ=165) 131. Hastings (IQ=165) 137. Holberg, L. von (IQ=165) 138. Jenner (IQ=165) 139. Johnson (IQ=165) 140. Law (IQ=165) 142. Locke (IQ=165) 143. Mazzini (IQ=165) 144. Mendelssohn (IQ=165) 145. Montaigne (IQ=165) 147. Newman, J.H. (IQ=165) 150. Robertson (IQ=165) 151. Sainte-Beuve (IQ=165) 153. Scott (IQ=165) 154. Shaftesbury (IQ=165) 155. Sheridan, R.B. (IQ=165) 156. St. Simon (IQ=165) 160. Webster (IQ=165) 161. Winckelmann (IQ=165) 162. Wordsworth (IQ=165) 163. Zwingli (IQ=165)
	Robert Pirsig (1928-)	=170 (age 9)	Downgrade (↓) for ratio IQ; upgrade (↑) for hmolscience quote about motives and morals.
	Abraham Lincoln (1809-1865)	=160 =150 =170	A Cattell 1000 (top 40); high in wisdom, interpersonal intelligence, leadership intelligence, and strong oratorical skills.
	Socrates (c.469-399BC)	=160	One of Nietzsche’s uberman (IQ=186+).
	Thomas Wallace (c.1937)	=140-175	In his 2009 Wealth, Energy, and Human Values, he seems to have been the first to apply or model the rise and fall of civilizations using reaction mechanism formulations, the Gibbs equation, and reaction coordinate diagrams—all using a purely physical chemistry terminology and depiction, e.g. using the double dagger "‡" to indicate a molecular reactant species in an unstable transition state, the double arrow "↔" to represent a reversible reaction, and a one-way arrow "→" to represent an irreversible reaction, a drop down arrow "↓" to represent ossification of a society, etc.
	Carl Jung (1875-1961)	=160	Known for: psychodynamics.
	Kim Ung-Yong (1963-) ↓	=150-175 =200 =210
	Ada Lovelace (1815-1852)	=145-165	Daughter of Lord Byron (IQ=180); from an early age, owing to her mother’s idea that education would root out any insanity associated with her father’s side, she was taught mathematics and science from some of the world’s leading scholars, including Mary Somerville (IQ=170); wrote the world’s first computer program (1842), an algorithm for calculating a sequence of Bernoulli (IQ=) numbers with Charles Baggage’s (IQ=) analytical engine.
	Christoph Wieland (1733-1813) ↓	=170	Commented in a letter to German philologist and archeologist Karl Böttiger, which he suggested should be "burned" after it is read, that: “to all rational readers, the use of the chemical theory [in Goethe’s Elective Affinities] is nonsense and childish fooling around”; supposedly, objected owing to the "radicalness of its Christianity" (Jul 16); in another letter, whose addressee, a woman, is unknown, he stated: "I confess to you, my friend, that I have read this truly terrifying work not without feeling or concern."
	Eric Weisstein (1969-)	=135-165	Noted encyclopedist; since 1995 has written over 17,000+ articles on science and mathematics in his MathWorld (13,000+) and ScienceWorld (4,000+) sites.
	Salman Khan (c.1975-)	=135-165	Noted video encyclopedist; BS mathematics, BS electrical engineering, MS electrical engineering (MIT), MBA (Harvard Business School); in 2004, starting from a tutoring request from his cousin, Nadia, working from a small office in his home, via video upload (using using Yahoo!'s Doodle notepad), founded Khan Academy, from which he has personally produced over 2,600 videos elucidating a wide spectrum of academic subjects, tending to focus on mathematics and the sciences; Bill Gates (IQ=175), who funds his project, stated on him: "I'd say we've moved about 160 IQ points from the hedge fund category to the teaching-many-people-in-a-leveraged-way category. It was a good day his wife let him quit his job." (a hedge fund manager position he quit in 2009 to devoted more time to his project.
	Wolfgang Mozart (1756-1791)	=163 =165 =160
	Ayn Rand (1905-1982)	=140-170	Upgrade (↑) for her objectivism philosophy, a philosophy favored by many in Mensa (IQ=132-148), as extolled in her The Fountainhead (1943) and Atlas Shrugged (1957), supposedly favors the forward acquisition of knowledge and is said to only “available for a people with an IQ of 150 (or above)” (link); downgrade (↓) for her so-called proof of the existence of free will and possible downgrade for her fierce criticisms of David Hume (IQ=180), Immanuel Kant (IQ=180), and Friedrich Nietzsche (IQ=180) (link); see also: her 1972 “Letter to Boris Spassky” (link) on Bobby Fischer (IQ=?).
	Suleyman	=160
	Gandhi	=160
	164. Alfieri (IQ=160) 165. Andrewes (IQ=160) 168. Bunyan (IQ=160) 169. Canova (IQ=160) 170. Channing (IQ=160) 171. Chateaubriand (IQ=160) 172. Chesterfield (IQ=160) 173. Claredon (IQ=160) 174. Clarke, S. (IQ=160) 176. Corneille (IQ=160) 177. Cowper (IQ=160) 178. Dryden (IQ=160) 179. Dupin (IQ=160) 181. Etienne (IQ=160) 182. Franklin, B. (IQ=160) 183. Gaskell, E.C.S. (IQ=160) 184. Grimm, J.L. (IQ=160) 185. Grote (IQ=160) 186. Haydn (IQ=160) 187. Helvetius (IQ=160) 188. Hunter (IQ=160) 189. Jansen (IQ=160) 190. Jefferson (IQ=160) 191. Lamartine (IQ=160) 192. Lessing (IQ=160) 193. L'Hopital (IQ=160) 194. Madison (IQ=160) 195. Martineau, H. (IQ=160) 196. Mazarin (IQ=160) 197. Moliere (IQ=160) 198. Richelieu (IQ=160) 199. Rubens (IQ=160) 200. Sand (IQ=160) 201. Schleiermacher (IQ=160) 202. Sevigne (IQ=160) 203. Sumner, C. (IQ=160) 204. Thiers (IQ=160) 205. Wesley (IQ=160)
	Heinrich Heine (1797-1856) ↓	=165	Downgrade for going against Goethe and his elective affinities theory; is said to have claimed that Goethe was a corrupter of religion; that his Elective Affinties overturns "everything holy" and is an attack against religion, morality, and the social forms.
	Ludwig Tieck (1773-1853) ↓	=165	Downgrade for going against Goethe, calling his theory-containing novella "torture affinities"; a fact that German writer and novelist Bettina Brentano (1785-1859) let Goethe know.
	Maria Montessori (1870-1952)	=157	Early child education reformer; eponym of Montessori education method, the let the child follow their own following interests educational approach.
	Vyasa	=156
	Hannibal	=155
	Honore Balzac (1799-1850)	=155	Noted, in literature chemistry, for his usage of chemistry or chemical theory in literature, in some way or another, such as, supposedly, in his 1834 Search for Absolute Truth.
	Adams, J. (IQ=155) Ait Weil Zade (IQ=155) Baxter (IQ=155) Beranger (IQ=155) Bolivar (IQ=155) Bulwer (IQ=155) Cervantes (IQ=155) Pitt (the Younter) (IQ=155) Cervantes (IQ=155) Cobden (IQ=155) Danton (IQ=155) Durer (IQ=155) Fox, G. J. (IQ=155) Fox, George (IQ=155) Fulton, R. (IQ=155) Gambetta, L.M. (IQ=155) Hamilton, A. (IQ=155) Hawthorne, N. (IQ=155) La Fontaine (IQ=155) Maintenon (IQ=155) Miller, Hugh (IQ=155) More (IQ=155) Necker (IQ=155) O’Connell (IQ=155) Palestrina (IQ=155) Pitt (the Elder) (IQ=155) Prescott (IQ=155) Rembrandt (IQ=155) Savonarola (IQ=155) Seward (IQ=155) Swift (IQ=155) Temple, W. (IQ=155) Van Dyck (IQ=155) Walpole (IQ=155) Warburton (IQ=155) Wilberforce (IQ=155) Blake, H. (IQ=155)
	Jean-Jacques Rousseau (1712-1778)	=150	Quote (Ernst Curtis): “The middle of the eighteenth century witnessed the first powerful revolt against cultural tradition, which is marked by Rousseau. This tradition was restarted by universal genius Goethe. But it was restarted for the last time. Goethe had not been succeeded by another universal genius.” [22]
	Joseph Leidy (1823-1891)	=130-155	One of fabled "last persons to know everything" (although this epitaph seems to more of an overzealous labeling of his biographer American anatomist and biologist Leonard Warren, who was curious to know about this rather unknown University of Pennsylvania biology-paleontology pioneer folk hero, pictured above his office).
	Thorstein Veblen (1857-1929)	=130-155	One of fabled "last persons to know everything".
	Alexander, F.M.	=150
	Verdi	=150
	Dickens	=150
	Cezanne	=149
	Graham	=148
	Muhammad Ali	=147
	Bright (IQ=150) Burns (IQ=150) Cobbett (IQ=150) Franklin, J. (IQ=150) Marmont (IQ=150) Moore (IQ=150) Murillo (IQ=150) Nelson (IQ=150) Soult (IQ=150) Thackeray (IQ=150) Wilkes (IQ=150)
	Megellan	=145
	Wellesley	=145
	Nelson	=145
	Titan	=145
	Rembrandt	=145
	Zizka	=145
	Alberoni (IQ=145) Anderson, H. C. (IQ=145) Blucher (IQ=145) Garrison, W.L. (IQ=145) Gluck (IQ=145) Hogarth (IQ=145) Jackson, A. (IQ=145) Marlborough (IQ=145) Meheme Ali (IQ=145) Moreau (IQ=145) Poussin (IQ=145) Reynolds (IQ=145) Rossini (IQ=145) Sherman (IQ=145)
	Gutenberg	=140
	Sylvia Plath (1932-1963)	=140+	Quote: “In her last three years of high school, the overachieving Sylvia continued to outclass everyone (IQ test scores ranked her as a genius).” [18]
	George Washington	=140	A Cattell 1000 (top 20).
	Christopher Columbus	=140	A Cattell 1000 (top 30).
	Charlie Chaplin (1889-1977)	=140
	Bernadotte (IQ=140) Clive (IQ=140) Cortez (IQ=140) Garibaldi (IQ=140) Lee, R.E. (IQ=140) Monk (IQ=140) Vauban (IQ=140) Washington (IQ=140)

Einstein's circle

The iconic group photograph of the 1927 Solvay conference, in Brussels, Belgium, giving a well-imaged viewing of Einstein's erudite intellectual circle: back row: Auguste Piccard, Emile Henriot, Paul Ehrenfest, Edouard Herzen, Theophile de Donder, Erwin Schrödinger (IQ=190), Jules Verschaffelt, Wolfgang Pauli, Werner Heisenberg (IQ=180), Ralph Fowler, Leon Brillouin; middle row: Peter Debye, Martin Knudsen, William Bragg, Hendrik Kramers, Paul Dirac, Arthur Compton, Louis de Broglie, Max Born, Niels Bohr (IQ=185); front row: Irving Langmuir, Max Planck (IQ=190), Marie Curie (IQ=185), Hendrik Lorentz—and at center front, Albert Einstein (IQ=220), intellectual protégé of Goethe—seated next to Paul Langevin, Charles Guye, Charles Wilson, and Owen Richardson.

Goethe's circle

A vivid depiction of Weimar, Germany, in 1803, drawn by German painter Otto Knille (1884), giving a well-imaged viewing of Goethe's erudite intellectual circle: Johann Schlosser, Georg Hegel (IQ=165), Johann Fichte (IQ=170), Jean Paul, Ludwig Tieck (IQ=165), Wilhelm Humboldt (IQ=175), Alexander Humboldt (IQ=185), Friedrich Schleiermacher (IQ=160), Carl Gauss (IQ=195), who knew all of Goethe's poetry works, August Schlegel, Friedrich Klinger (KUnger), Peter Cornelius, Heinrich Kleist, Johann Pestalozzi seated left red jacket hunched over, who affixed Goethe with the title "prince of the mind", Barthold Niebuhr (IQ=185), Johann Herder (IQ=165), in whom in 1784 Goethe first confided his discovery of evidence for human evolution from lower animals, Johann Gleim, Lorenz Oken, Johann Voss, Johann Blumenbach, Friedrich Klopstock— and Goethe (1749-1832) (IQ=230)—the big dog, standing at the center of attention—followed by Christoph Wieland (IQ=170), seated right front, who in 1810 called Goethe's self-defined greatest theory "childish nonsense and fooling around", August Iffland—and last but not least Friedrich Schiller (IQ=175)—Goethe’s closest intellectual friend—in whom, in 1796, he first confided his newly-forming human elective affinities theory—and a bench mark for the launching of the science of human chemistry and in effect the seeds to the newly-forming overly-complex 21st century science of human chemical thermodynamics (see: human free energy theorists).

Aristotle's circle

A vivid depiction of the School in Athens, Greece, circa 350BC, drawn by Italian painter Raphael (1510) (IQ=170), giving a well-imaged viewing of Aristotle's erudite intellectual circle: 1:Zeno of Citium 2:Epicurus 3:unknown 4:Boethius or Anaximander or Empedocles? 5:Averroes 6:Pythagoras 7:Alcibiades or Alexander the Great (IQ=180)? 8:Antisthenes or Xenophon or Timon? 9:unknown or the Fornarina as a personification of Love or (Francesco Maria della Rovere?) 10:Aeschines or Xenophon? 11:Parmenides? 12:Socrates (IQ=160) 13:Heraclitus (Michelangelo (IQ=180)) 14:Plato (IQ=180) (Leonardo da Vinci (IQ=205)) 15:Aristotle (IQ=190) 16:Diogenes 17:Plotinus (Donatello?) 18:Euclid (IQ=185) or Archimedes (IQ=190) with students (Bramante?) 19:Zoroaster 20:Ptolemy? R:Apelles (Raphael) 21:Protogenes (Il Sodoma, Perugino, or Timoteo Viti).

IQ quotes

The following are related or relevant quotes about intelligence ratios:

“People who talk about their IQ are losers.”

– Stephen Hawking (IQ=180), when asked what his IQ was (New York Times interview)

"I will advise parents in Hong Kong there's no need to know the IQ of your children. Just try to do your best to nurture them and give them space to develop.”

– Tony Boedihardjo, father of March Boedihardjo (1998-), BS and MS mathematics, Hong Kong University (age 13)

Key
The following is a key to the icons and IQ subscripts used above:

Symbol	Key
IQSymbol	The following are the links to various (Terman IQ), (Cox IQ), (Buzan IQ), (Cox-Buzan IQ), (Ratio IQ), (Deviation IQ), (Mega Test IQ), (Guinness Book IQ), (Psychologist IQ), (Other IQ: cited at IQ references, or per numbered reference), (Estimated IQ: estimated fit per extrapolation of established previously made Cox-Buzan IQ estimates), (Stanford-Binet), (or AI IQ) (development to age 17), (or AII IQ) (development from 17 to 26), (YouTube community thumbs up rankings).
	Won a Nobel Prize; two medals signifies two wins.
[:#]	Nominated for a Nobel Prize but did not win; number signifies number of times nominated.
	Won a Fields Medal, the highest award in mathematics, for thinkers under the age of 40.

Prodigies | New
The following are collection of recent child prodigies (ranked loosely in descending order by guesstimated intelligence) with claims to high-genius range test scores (mostly ratio IQs), albeit without noted comparative accomplishments, discoveries, works, theories, etc., to verify or rank accordingly their claimed genius-range IQ scores, accordingly:

IQ	Person	IQ estimates	Description
?	Dylan Jones (1992-)	=140-175 =200 (age 10)	Entered engineering school at age 10 (Colorado School of Mines); photographic memory; able to recite pi to the 500 places and e to 100 places; completed BS in mathematical and computer science at age 16, with a minor in bioengineering and life sciences; entered medical school age 17, with aims (as of 2009) to become a neurosurgeon, board certified by age 28.
	Sho Yano (1990-)	=200 (age 10)
	Jacob Barnett (1999-)	=115-145 =170	Quote: “12-year-old Jake is studying electromagnetic physics at Indiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis and has an IQ of 170.” [2] Said to be doing work on Einstein's relativity theory.
	Ainan Cawley (1999-)	=263-349 (age 7) =110-140	Passed the O level exam (in chemistry) at 7 years and 1 month old, with a score of "C" (the average grade, supposedly, because he had studied the wrong syllabus, owing to a misunderstanding about which exams he would be taking).
	Colin Carlson (1997-)	=110-140 =160	[10]
	Victoria Cowie (2000-)	=162	[12]
	Pranav Veera (2003-)	=110-140 =176 (age 6)	[9]
	Oscar Wrigley (2007-)	=160	[20]
	Elise Tan-Roberts (2007-)	=156	[20]

Prodigies | Old
The following is a listing of old child prodigies, now into adulthood without notable "genius range" intellectual accomplishments, above the fray, so to speak:

IQ	Person	IQ estimates
	Edith Stern (1952-)	=200, 201-203
	Nathan Leopold (1904-1971) ↓	=200, 206-210	Downgrade for delusionally believing himself to be a Nietzsche uberman (IQ=183+) and for attempting a kidnapping-murder-ransom heist to prove this.
	Michael Grost (1954-)	=145-155 =200 (age 8)
	Michael Kearney (1982-)	=135-155 =325 (age 4) =200 (age 14)
	Marnen Laibow-Koser (1975-)	=268
	Merrill Kenneth Wolf (1931-2011)	=182 (age 14)	AB in music from Yale in 1945 (age 14) and MD from Western Reserve University School of Medicine in 1956 (age 25); Quote: “[Merrill Kenneth Wolf]’s of 182, which is only 23 points lower than Einstein’s [IQ=205]”. [25]
	Adragon De Mello (1976-)	=110-125 =400 (age 5)	Set the record in 1988 for becoming the youngest person (age 11 years and 8 months) to graduate from college (BA computational mathematics, Univ of Calif, Santa Cruz); but thereafter severely burned out; turning instead to socializing and friendships; never again returning to academic-intellectual pursuits; was the product of his father's prodigal son dreams (the subject of a book he wrote before Adragon was even conceived).

Other | Misc
The following are a mishmash of random individuals with claims of IQs in the genius (140+) or supergenius range (200±):

	Evangelos Katsioulis (1976-) ↓	=180-196	[3]
	Christopher Harding (1944-)	=196-197 =200	Quote: “In Australia, I was fortunate to come into contact with and employ one of the then three most intelligent people in the world, Chris Harding. This trio all had I.Q.'s over 200, well off the Stanford/Binet scale” (biographical writings of Allan Skertchly). [15]

Showboaters | Scams | etc
The following are a mishmash of newcomers, relatively unknown prodigies, or so-called "high IQ testers", recently in the news prodigies, etc., said to have, or have claimed themselves to have, genius-range IQs, but as of yet, without noted accomplishments to verify or rank accordingly their genius-range IQ claims:

	Jim Diamond (c.1945-)	=160+	A retired magician who runs MegaGenius.com where he claims to be the "man with the perfect IQ" (link) and sells how-to-be-a-genius videos; claims his IQ at 160+ (link).
	Philip Emeagwali (1954-)	=130-160? =190	Smartest man ever? (link); Genius or Crook? (link); quote: “IQ is too high to be measured on conventional tests.” (link); “reported by Sahara reporters as having an IQ of 190” (link).
	Christopher Langan (1952-) ↓↓↓	=174, 190 =195, 190-210	Huge downgrade for (a) being an IQ test addict, (b) vocalizing his opinion that he "has seen farther than anyone who has come before him, and (c) being an intelligent design theorist.
	Marilyn vos Savant (1946-) ↓↓↓↓	=186 (age 39) =127 (age 7) =167 =157 =228	Huge downgrade for (a) knowingly publically faking a 228 IQ, based on falsified records of age-contrived Stanford-Benet test ratio IQ score (sent to Guinness for the purposes of self-promotion), for nearly three decades now, and (b) never having produced anything of intellectual note, other than being a newspaper columnist (a job she landed based her falsified IQ fame), and (c) being a IQ test junky (and IQ test maker).
	Rick Rosner (1960-) ↓↓↓	=140 (age 18) =180-200 =250	Huge downgrade for (a) going back to high school at age 25, (b) being an IQ test junky, (c) publically boasting of having a 200-range IQ, etc.
	Naida Camukova (c. 1976-)	=125-140 =200	Supposedly, some kind of fraud who touts about having an IQ=199.9, in and about Turkey, so to gain money for her institution, or something along these lines.

References
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3. Evangelos Katsioulis (about) – Katsioulis.com.
4. (a) In high school, Feynman’s IQ was determined to be 125.
(b) Gleick, James. (1992). Genius: The Life and Science of Richard Feynman (IQ=125). Pantheon Books.
5. (a) Poincare did so poorly on the Binet IQ that he was judged an imbecile (IQ=35).
(b) Rose, Colin and Nicholl, Malcolm J. (1998). Accelerated Learning for the 21s Century (pg. 250). Dell.
6. Pakhi. (2008). “Whiz Hearts: Srinivasa Ramanujan.” Delta-to-Sigma, Blogspot.com, Dec. 25.
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19. Linus Pauling – Achievement.org.
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21. Robert Pirsig – AMSAW.org.
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