In genius studies, Genius IQ candidates refers to individuals tentatively slated, estimated, or nominated to have possible have a genius IQ of 140 (Terman) to 160 (Hollingworth) or above ranking in the tentative future project of the 1000 greatest geniuses of all time listing, a list actively growing presently at the Genius IQs rankings table, whose nominations stem from a number of sources: such as peer genius rankings, multiple thread nominations, historically established genius fame and retrospect ability, among others. This page, to some extent, is an expanded spinoff of the IQ: 200 (±) candidates page, just as the Genius IQs page is an expanded spinoff of the IQ: 200+ page. Thread nominations (with reason) are welcome.
IQ | Person? | Estimate | Description |
(1935-1987) | Entered Yale age 16; MBA at Harvard; youngest ever vice president Pacific Stock Exchange; thereafter inventing team card counting and becoming known as the “genius card-counter”. (link) |
IQ | Person? | Estimate | Description |
(1932-) | Didn’t speak until age 3 (similar to Einstein); at 3.5 spoke like an adult, could count to a million, and had a photographic memory; to win ice cream cones, he would bet grocers that he could add customers’ bills in his head faster than the grocer could using an adding machine; for fun, would take IQ tests at the local library, typically scoring in the 170 to 200 range; made homemade explosives such as nitrocellulose and ammonium iodide to blow up things and make rocket cars; in 1955, while a physics graduate student at UCLA, one bare boned budget of $100 a month, while putting in 50-60 hours studying and in classes, he realized time was money, so he began to read books on psychology for tips on how to study faster; thereafter he began to study the ‘physics’ of roulette wheels, and in 1961 invented the world’s first wearable computer, learning Fortran to do the programing, to make predictive bets in the few seconds after the croupier releases the white ball, while bets are still open; in 1960, while a mathematics instructor at MIT, became gambling (blackjack/roulette) theorist cohort with Claude Shannon (IQ=180±) and together they built pocket computer casino device. [13] | ||
(1929-) | [GPE] Taught himself calculus at age 7 (link); in 1961, he (and Kazuhiko Nishijima) to introduce a classification scheme for hadrons, elementary particles that participate in the strong interaction (this scheme was independently proposed by Yuval Ne'eman)—his scheme is now explained by the quark model; in 1964, Gell-Mann and George Zweig, independently, went on to postulate the existence of quarks” (a term coined by Gell-Mann), particles of which hadrons are composed. | ||
(1951-) | | ||
(1928-) | His Manufacturing Consent was mentioned in Good Will Hunting; oft-labeled as the "smartest person alive". [4] | ||
● IQ history ● IQ: 225+ ● Last person to know everything ● Smartest person ever | ● Polymath ● Universal genius ● Last universal genius ● IQ+ 150+ | Smartest woman ever | ● Two cultures genius (two cultures) |