Early parental death and genius

In genius studies, early parental death and genius refers to the salient commonality of finding a strong correlation between the phenomenon of early parent death (EPD), e.g. the father of Newton (EPD:F0) died before Newton was born, and such children later becoming geniuses, innovators, leaders, or revolution or paradigm changers. Seventy-five percent of double Nobel Prize Laureates were the result of early parental death; fifty percent of top four American film stars were results of early parental death like phenomenon. Early parental death, being first born, and various educational anomalies, are three top commonalities unique to a large percentage of historical geniuses (Simonton, 1991).

Overview

The following is a work-in-progress listing "early parental death" (EPD) geniuses, where the first # column shows the numbered chronological ordering by date of birth (synthesis), the T2 column shows the person's position in the top 2000 rankings, the IQ_R shows the person's "real IQ" (if listed in the top 2000 rankings), the RGM column shows the person current "ranker greatest mind" position (by popular vote), the "parents" column lists a number which is the age in years (or D = day; W = week) of the person was when their parent (M = mother; F = father) or parents "died" (the cutoff being about age 16 or less); the table also is color coded for certain common grouping, e.g. law of gravitation discoverer (green), revolutionist (dark gray), existentialism (blue), vacuum experimentalist pioneer (purple), thermodynamic revolutionist (red), which is the repercussion of the vacuum experimenters, and human chemical thermodynamics (HCT) founder or pioneer (yellow):

#	T2			ICR	RGM	Parents	Notes
	8.		Aristotle (2339-2277 BE) (384-322 BCM)	195	[RGM:9|1,350+]	~M8, ~F8 orphaned at tender age	World-view founder
	122.		Marcus Aurelius (1834-1775 BE) (121-180 ACM)	180	[RGM:81|1,350+]	F3
			Al-Tawhidi (955-940 BE) (923-1015 ACM)			M+F orphaned at early age
	55.		Nicolaus Copernicus (482-412 BE) (1473-1543 ACM)	185	[RGM:20|1,350+]	F10	Copernican revolution
	46.		Blaise Pascal (332-293 BE) (1623-1662 ACM)	185	[RGM:30|1,350+]	M3	Top vacuum experimentalist
	56.		Robert Boyle (328-264 BE) (1627-1691 ACM)	185	[RGM:529|1,350+]	M3	Chemistry founder Top vacuum experimentalist
	33.		Christiaan Huygens (326-260 BE) (1629-1695 ACM)	190	[RGM:383|1,350+]	M8	Top vacuum experimentalist
	50.		Benedict Spinoza (323-278 BE) (1632-1677 ACM)	185	[RGM:116|1,350+]	M6	Atheism founder
	18.		Robert Hooke (320-252 BE) (1635-1703 ACM)	195	[RGM:372|1,350+]	F13	Law of universal gravitation founder
	2.		Isaac Newton (312-228 BE) (1643-1727 ACM)	205	[RGM:2|1,350+]	F0	Law of universal gravitation founder
	696.		Thomas Aikenhead (279-258 BE) (1676-1697 ACM)	150		F10+M10	Atheism
	16.		Voltaire (261-177 BE) (1694-1778 ACM)	195	[RGM:62|1,350+]	M7	Atheism, deism, religious skepticism
	110.		David Hume (244-179 BE) (1711-1776 ACM)	180	[RGM:112|1,350+]	F2	Religious skepticism
	147.		Jean Rousseau (243-177 BE) (1712-1778 ACM)	180	[RGM:118|1,350+]	M0 (9days)
	84.		Jean d'Alembert (238-172 BE) (1717-1783 ACM)	185	[RGM:88|1,350+]	F12H
	340.		Adam Smith (232-165 BE) (1723-1790 ACM)	170	[RGM:77|1,350+]	F0
	93.		Antoine Lavoisier (212-161 BE) (1743-1794 ACM)	180	[RGM:160|1,350+]	M5, S15	Chemistry founder Thermodynamic revolution
	157.		Marquis Condorcet (212-161 BE) (1743-1794 ACM)	180		Father died shortly after his birth (Ѻ) ~F2
	563.		Joseph Jacquard (203-121 BE) (1752-1834 ACM)	160		F10
	402.		Benjamin Thompson (202-141 BE) (1753-1814 ACM)	170		F2	Thermodynamic revolution
	106.		Napoleon Bonaparte (186-134 BE) (1769-1821 ACM)	180	[RGM:154|1,350+]	F15	French revolutionist Existentialism Atheism
			Charles Fourier (183-118 BE) (1772-1837 ACM)			F9
	151.		Jacob Berzelius (176-107 BE) (1779-1848 ACM)	180		F4, M9	Chemistry pioneer
	306.		Mary Shelley (158-104 BE) (1797-1851 ACM)	175		M0 (11days)
	670.		Hugh Miller (153-99 BE) (1802-1856 ACM)	155		F5
	105.		Charles Darwin (146-73 BE) (1809-1882 ACM)	180	[RGM:44|1,350+]	M8	Darwinian revolution
			Karl Heinzen (146-75 BE) (1809-1880 ACM)			M4	Atheism
	121.		Fyodor Dostoyevsky (134-74 BE) (1821-1881 ACM)	180	[RGM:49|1,350+]	M15	Existentialism Atheism
	103.		Leo Tolstoy (127-45 BE) (1828-1910 ACM)	180	[RGM:75|1,350+]	M2, F9	Existentialism Atheism
	52.		William Thomson (131-48 BE) (1824-1907 ACM)	185	[RGM:619|1,350+]	M6	Thermodynamic revolution
	4.		James Maxwell (124-76 BE) (1831-1879 ACM)	205	[RGM:53|1,350+]	M8	Electromagnetic revolution Thermodynamic revolution
			Francois Massieu (123-59 BE) (1832-1896 ACM)			F0	Thermodynamic revolution
	5.		Willard Gibbs (116-52 BE) (1839-1903 ACM)	205	[RGM:573|1,350+]	M16	Physical chemistry pioneer Thermodynamic revolution
	28.		Ludwig Boltzmann (111-49 BE) (1844-1906 ACM)	190	[RGM:483|1,350+]	F15	Thermodynamic revolution Quantum revolution
	29.		Friedrich Nietzsche (111-55 BE) (1844-1900 ACM)	190	[RGM:39|1,350+]	F5	Atheism Existentialism HCT pioneer
			Joseph Klein (106-37 BE) (1849-1918 ACM)			F1.5	Thermodynamic revolution
			Johannes Laar (95-16 BE) (1860-1939 ACM)			M2, F13	Thermodynamic revolution
			Walther Nernst (91-14 BE) (1864-1941 ACM)			M12	Thermodynamic revolution
	118.		Marie Curie (88-21 BE) (1867-1934 ACM)	180	[RGM:17|1,350+]	M10	Physics (1903) Chemistry (1911)
	127.		Fritz Haber (87-21 BE) (1868-1934 ACM)	180		M0 (3weeks)	Chemistry (1919) Thermodynamic revolution
	6##.		Vladimir Lenin (85-31 BE) (1870-1924 ACM)	155	[RGM:1040|1,350+]	F15	Russian revolutionist
	104.		Bertrand Russell (83 BE-15 AE) (1872-1970 ACM)	180	[RGM:100|1,350+]	M2, F4	Literature (1950) Atheism
			Alexis Carrel (892-11 BE) (1873-1944 ACM)			F5	Physiology or Medicine (1912)
	631.		Arthur Eddington (73-11 BE) (1882-1944 ACM)	155		F2
	690.		Howard Lovecraft (65-18 BE) (1890-1937 ACM)	150	[RGM:424|1,350+]	F8	Atheism
	35.		Linus Pauling (54 BE-43AE) (1901-1994 ACM)	190	[RGM:420|1,350+]	F8	Chemistry (1954) Peace (1962)
	470.		Jean-Paul Sartre (50 BE-25 AE) (1905-1980 ACM)	165	[RGM:418|1,350+]	F2	Literature (1964) Existentialism Atheism
	156.		John Bardeen (47 BE-36 AE) (1908-1991 ACM)	180		M12	Physics (1956) Physics (1972)
	469.		Albert Camus (42 BE-5 AE) (1913-1960 ACM)	165	[RGM:227|1,350+]	F1	Literature (1957) Existentialism Atheism
	###.		Mirza Beg (23- BE) (1932- ACM)	175+		F11	HCT pioneer (1987) Theism
	724.		Hunter Thompson (18 BE-68 AE) (1937-2005 ACM)	145	[RGM:691|1,350+]	F14
			Libb Thims (17- AE) (1972- ACM)			M12	HCT founder Existentialism Atheism

Discussion

A large percentage of geniuses, when they were children, watched one or both of their parents die. The figureheads of top eight scientific revolutions, shown above, were early parental death (EPD) products, the number (#) showing the age of the person when their mother (M) or father (F) died.. Likewise, 75% percent of duel Nobel Prize Laureates, namely: Marie Curie, Linus Pauling, and John Bardeen, were EPD children.

A few interesting patterns can be noted from the above analysis. Generally speaking, one who possesses EPD eyes, tends to “see” the world with a much sharper, acute, and reality-attracting vision, than the average person.

Firstly, Newton and Hooke must have had a tremendously powerful anger directed against each other, to say the least.

Napoleon and Lenin, who started the French and Russian revolutions, were both products of an environment wherein their father died when they were age 15.

Pascal, Boyle, and Huygens, each of whom were M3, M3, and M8, and each of whom were three of the biggest “vacuum” experimentalists of the 17th century, which amounts to an attempt to overthrow a 2,000-year ingrained belief that “nature abhors a vacuum”, overthrowing Aristotle, in short.

The experimental work of these three EPD vacuum theorists, gave birth to the “gunpowder engine” (vacuum made becomes work) and then the “steam engine” (vacuum made becomes work), which led to the five EPD thermodynamic revolutionists: Lavoisier, Thompson, Thomson, Maxwell, and Gibbs.

Next, we can note that the three existential atheists: Nietzsche, Sartre, and Camus; certainly the commonalities between Sartre and Camus are striking.

Mirza Beg, author of Physico-Chemical Sociology (1987), father died age 11, and Libb Thims, author of Human Chemistry (2007), mother died age 12, meeting for the first time in Pakistan, the two biggest pioneers of human chemical thermodynamics, after Goethe (1809), only to find out, in dialogue, that they are both products of an early parental death (EPD) environment.

Goethean revolution

Lastly, we note Mirza Beg and Libb Thims, two of the handful of people involved in the so-called "Goethean revolution" or HCT revolution. There are not more than a handful of thinkers, Empedocles, Goethe, Beg, and Thims, the latter two, throughout history, since chemical thermodynamics became a science, who have defined people as molecules and attempted to outline a chemical thermodynamic summary of human existence, otherwise known as human chemical thermodynamics (HTC), in respect to the view of people reacting, in the logic of human chemical reaction theory. Beg and Thims are both EPD products who went on to formulate HCT theory, only realizing this when they met in Pakistan in 2019.

Death / Died | Terminology note

Of note, a salient point to keep in mind, given the context of the article, is that, scientifically, the terms “death” and “died” have no conceptual meaning, in terms of physics, chemistry, and thermodynamics; they are what Charles Sherrington (1938) calls “anthropisms”, and are terms that Francis Crick (1966) says should be "abandoned". In other words, just as a hydrogen atom does not live or die, or reach a point of “death”, so it is with humans. This point of view, however, is a rather new view (only four people, in the last three decades, independently, have arrived at this view), which is called “abioism” . The point to keep in mind, is that one is advised to think about and to try to employ “life terminology upgrades”, when speaking about terms, such as death, dying, dead, and died. While these new so-called "death terminology upgrades" have as of yet not been fully solidified, the point to keep in mind is that correctly, one is a powered CHNOPS+20E atomic geometry, wherein one "thinks" or "believes" that they move their "selves", but in reality it is an "exchange force" that moves people.

Scientific revolutions | EPD

The following table shows the main "scientific revolutions", with the core names of each revolution shown bolded:

Scientific Revolutions

	Name	Person
1.	Greek science revolution	Aristotle (322BC) | EPD:M8+F8
2.	Copernican revolution	Aristarchus (270BC) Nicolaus Copernicus (1543) | EPD:F10 Galileo Galilei (1609) Robert Hooke (1665) | EPD:F13 Isaac Newton (1687) | EPD:F0
3.	Chemical revolution	Leucippus (475BC) Robert Boyle (1661) | EPD:M3 Isaac Newton (1718) | EPD:F0 Antoine Lavoisier (1773) | EPD:M5 Torbern Bergman (1775) John Dalton (1808)
4.	Darwinian revolution	Ovid (8AD) Johann Goethe (1780) Erasmus Darwin (1791) Etienne Saint-Hilaire (1833) Alfred Wallace (1858) Charles Darwin (1859) | EPD:M8
5.	Thermodynamic revolution	Galileo Galilei (1592-1642) Robert Boyle (1657) | EPD:M3 Robert Hooke (1657) | EPD:F13 Antoine Lavoisier (1783) | EPD:M5 Benjamin Thompson (1798) | EPD:F2 Sadi Carnot → Carnotian revolution (1824) William Thomson (1854) | EPD:M6 Rudolf Clausius (1865) James Maxwell (1871) | EPD:M8 Ludwig Boltzmann (1872) | EPD:F15 Willard Gibbs (1876) | EPD:M16 Hermann Helmholtz (1882) Max Planck (1893) Walther Nernst (1905-1916) Fritz Haber (1905) | EPD:M0 Albert Einstein (1905) Gilbert Lewis (1923) Edward Guggenheim (1933) Erwin Schrodinger (1944)
6.	Maxwellian revolution	Pierre Gassendi (1649) Robert Hooke (1660s) | EPD:F13 Isaac Newton (1670s) | EPD:F0 Christiaan Huygens (1678) | EPD:M8 Thomas Young (1801) Michael Faraday (1830s) James Maxwell (1865) | EPD:M8 Albert Einstein (1905)
7.	Quantum revolution	Rudolf Clausius (1857) Ludwig Boltzmann (1891) | EPD:F15 Max Planck (1900) Albert Einstein (1905) Niels Bohr (1913) Erwin Schrodinger (1926)
8.	Goethean revolution	Jean Sales (1789) Johann Goethe (1796) Mirza Beg (1987) | EPD:F11 Libb Thims (date) | EPD:M12 → Thimsian revolution (1995)

In sum, we see that the EPD genius want “truth” at all costs, and is “willing” to “die” to get it, per reason that they have already looked “death” in the face, at a young age; a point following which a skin-thickening and brain-growing process began accrued.

Quotes

50% of the top four film “stars”, namely Katharine Hepburn and Cary Grant, were products of “early parental death” (EPD) (or like) phenomena.

The following are related quotes:

“Rumford [Benjamin Thompson] has informed us himself that he should probably have remained in the modest condition of his ancestors if the little fortune which they had to leave him had not been lost during his infancy. Thus, like many other men of genius, a misfortune in early life was the cause of his subsequent reputation. His father died young [age 2]. A second husband removed him from the care of his mother, and his grandfather, from whom he had everything to expect, had given all he possessed to a younger son, leaving his grandson almost penniless. Nothing could be more likely than such a destitute condition to induce a premature display of talent.”

— Georges Cuvier (c.1815), Publication (pg. 9)

“Parental loss and orphanhood: Exceptionally achieving individuals in virtually every human endeavor are more likely to have lost a parent [in youth], and especially both, relative to any reasonable baseline (Albert 1971; Eiduson 1962; Eisenstadt 1978; Goertzel et al. 1978; Illingworth & lllingworth 1969; Martindale 1972; Walberg et al. 1980). Lenin was a teenager when his father died; Napoleon was around 15 when he lost his father; and Beethoven's mother died when he was 16, his father when he was 18. To show that these are not isolated instances, Eisenstadt (1978) examined 699 eminent personalities (about 14% of whom were scientists) from almost all eras and nationalities: 61% lost a parent before age 31, 52% before 26, and 45% before 21. Albert (1971) looked at the geniuses, both creators and leaders, who qualified for membership in the Cox (1926) sample and discovered that parental loss was characteristic of between 22 and 31%. Another investigation using a slightly overlapping sample of famous persons from all walks of life found that almost one-third of them had lost their fathers early in life (Walberg et al. 1980). This "orphanhood effect" has been most consistently demonstrated for literary creators: Martindale (1972) observed the absence of the father in 30% of a sample of poets. and more dramatically. Brown (1968) noted that 55% of his sample of writers had lost a parent before age 15. This same effect may hold for distinguished scientists as well: Newton's father died before Newton was even born, and though not nearly so dramatic, Boyle, Huygens, Lavoisier, Count Rumford. Lord Kelvin, Maxwell, and Marie Curie all lost a parent early in their lives (Price 1963, p. 109).”

— Dean Simonton (1998), Scientific Genius: a Psychology of Science

External links

• Early parental death and genius (subdomain) – Hmolpedia 2020.