Top 2000 geniuses and minds
In genius studies, top 2000 geniuses and minds refers to a ranked mixture of the top two-thousand supreme "geniuses", superior "intellects", biggest "minds", and newly-being-digested "thinkers", labeling-divides yet to be discerned (Hollingworth, 1938), of all time, ordered via "real IQ", on ten wiki pages.
Overview
The following is a work-in-progress meta-analysis (see: IQ key) ranking of the greatest, top, supreme, brightest, and or most-profound “geniuses”, superior intellects, and new minds of all time.[1] The seeds of the list are a mixture of the: Thims 97 (2005), Cox 300 (1926), Buzan 100 (1994), and the infamous "Thims 32" (2010), respectively, among others (see: reference list). The column shows the "real IQ" of each person; all scaled around the mean CPBT IQs.[2] The
column shows all known historical IQ estimates or calculations of that person. The "D" column shows the "intellectual density" (see: IQD) of each person, which is their real IQ divided by years of existence. The "A" column shows the age when the person ceased to exist. The "G" column list the gender (male / female) of each person. The "steady"
, "up"
, "down"
, and "wavy"
indicators, in each ranking #, give indication on whether they are in the process of migrating upwards, downwards, "holding steady", or in a wave, processing or "undecided" state. To make suggestion, visit either the Hmolpedia forum or the Reddit
RealGeniuses community.
Geniuses | 1-200 | IQ:180-210
The following are minds “1-200”, of the top 2000 geniuses, intellects, and minds (compare: HM rankings; next: 201-400, 401-600, 601-800, 801-1,000, 1,001-1,200, 1,201-1,400, 1,401-1,600, 1,601-1,800, 1,801-2,000):
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210 | Johann Goethe (206-123 BE) (1749-1832 ACM) |
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2.53 | 82 | (Cattell 1000:7) [RGM:41|1,350+] (Murray 4000:2|WL) (Gottlieb 1000:131) (GMG:1) (Perry 80:1|Li) [LUG:#] [LPKE:#] [TCG] (SN:1) (HD:19) (FA:56) (GA:6) (EvT:8|21+) (HFET:1) (CR:2,151) (LH:16) (TC:2,167|#1) Poly-intellect, writer, philosopher, evolutionist; founder of human chemistry, per his 1809 physico-chemical based novella Elective Affinities, wherein the four main characters, Charlotte A (as ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() during which their "passions" and competing "moralities" are brought into conflict and reconciled via governing nature of the “affinities” (or chemical forces) operating on and between each character, during the course of their physico-chemical transformation; the socially-extrapolated realization of Newton's last and final "Query 31" (1718). |
M | German | |
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205 | Isaac Newton (312-228 BE) (1643-1727 ACM) |
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2.44 | 84 | (Cattell 1000:4) [RGM:2|1,350+] (Murray 4000:2|CS / 1|P / 2|M) (Gottlieb 1000:6) (Becker 160:2|17L) (Stokes 100:32) (Simmons 100:1) (SIG:1) (EPD:F0) (TL:888|#2) Physicist, astronomer, chemist, mathematician, and philosopher;
Noted for his 1671 ''Method of Fluxions and Infinite Series'', wherein, he introduced differential equations (Ѻ); for his 1686 Mathematical Principles of Natural Philosophy; wherein he codified the three laws of motion, and proved, via mathematical means, that planets travel in ellipses owing to an “inward force of attraction between planets and the sun must decrease in inverse proportion to the square of the distance between them”, which Hooke and or Halley boasted, to Wren (c.1684), to have “solved”, albeit without proof; and for his 1704 Optics, wherein argues for a corpuscular theory of light, and in the 1718 edition attached his final “Query 31”, on the nature of chemical reactions occurring by degrees of force, which launched the science of affinity chemistry. |
M | English | |
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205 | Albert Einstein (76 BE-0 AE) (1879-1955 ACM) |
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2.70 | 76 | [RGM:6|1,350+] (Murray 4000:9|CS / 2|P) (Gottlieb 1000:17) (Becker 160:1
19L) (Stokes 100:93) (Simmons 100:2) (LGS:1) [Kanowitz 50:2] [Cropper 30:1|R] (GPE:1) (HD:52) (TL:768|#5) Physicist, astronomer, and philosopher; noted for his 1905 discovery of the equivalence of mass and energy: |
M | German-born American | |
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205 | James Maxwell (124-76 BE) (1831-1879 ACM) |
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4.27 | 48 | [RGM:53|1,350+] (Murray 4000:20|CS / 9|P) (Gottlieb 1000:205) (Becker 160:5|15L) (Simmons 100:12) (EPD:M8) (DN:4±) (GPE:3) (EPD:M8) (TL:498|#8) Mathematical physicist, a child prodigy, turned top ranked magnitude genius, one of the core founders of thermodynamics, noted for his 1860 development of the kinetic theory of gases, his 1862 Maxwell’s equations, describing the nature of the electromagnetic field, his 1871 Theory of Heat, his 1873 electromagnetic field theory of light, his 1875 thermodynamic surface work, among a number of other impressive accomplishments. | M | Scottish | |
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205 | Willard Gibbs (116-52 BE) (1839-1903 ACM) |
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3.20 | 64 | [RGM:573|1,350+] (Gottlieb 1000:825) [GTE:#] [GCE:27] [GPE] [GEE] (EPD:M16) (TL:866|#3) Mechanical engineer, chemical engineer, and mathematical physicist;
Central founder of chemical thermodynamics, statistical mechanics, vector analysis; first-slating: 195-220 (c.2013). |
M | American | |
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200 | Leonardo Vinci (503-436 BE) (1452-1519 ACM) |
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2.99 | 67 | (Cattell 1000:86) [RGM:1|1,350+] (Murray 4000:3|T / 4|WA) (Gottlieb 1000:9) (Becker 160:14|9L) [GEE:#] [LPKE:#] (RMS:13) (EP:4) (TL:194) Engineer, artist, technologist, polymath, physicist, astronomer, and general philosopher;
note for: blue sky problem theorist; animal heat theory, engineering, e.g. he made the first design for a piston and cylinder (see: piston) style gunpowder engine able to to lift a weight (adjacent), and therein an avowed "vacuist" (compare: avacuist); designed warfare technology, flight machines; heliocentrism advocate; did a pumpkin growing variant of Johann Helmont’s later more-popular willow growing experiment; Bible flood myth debunker; said to have utilized a "sleep formula", sleeping no more than four hours at a time, so to optimize his intellectual output: IQ of 260 (Araugo, 2017). |
M | Italian | |
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200 | Rudolf Clausius (133-67 BE) (1822-1888 ACM) |
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3.03 | 66 | [RGM:399|1,350+] (GS:5) (SIG:3) (TL860|#4) Mathematical physicist;
Noted for his The Mechanical Theory of Heat (1865), wherein, building on Euler, Lagrange, Lavoisier, Carnot, Joule, Thomson, and Rankine, he founded the science of thermodynamics. |
M | German | |
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195 | Democritus (2415-2325 BE) (c.460-370 BCM) |
2.11 | 90 | (Cattell 1000:751) [RGM:86|1,350+] (Becker 139:79|4L) (Stokes 100:10) (FA:14) (ACR:4) (TL:296) Mathematician and philosopher;
Known as the "father of atomic theory" (Leucippus is grandfather; Epicurus is son; Lucretius is grandson) and “prince of philosophers” (Laertius, 230); notably: "he mastered the whole extent of the science of his time, and that probably with greater independence and thoroughness than was the case with Aristotle" (Lange, 1865); he did the cone-cylinder, pyramid-prism proofs before Eudoxus claims of discovery (Archimedes, c.220BC); he was "the most learned man about nature of all the ancients” (Philodemus, 45BC); was the first to “deny chance” (see: anti-chance) (Simplicius, c.530); upgraded from #36 to #8 (Nov 2020), above Aristotle, per Lange, Archimedes, Philodemus, Simplicius; and per the fact that Plato tried to buy up and burn all of his books (Aristoxenus, 325BC). |
M | Greek | ||
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195 | Aristotle (2339-2277 BE) (384-322 BCM) |
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3.15 | 62 | (Cattell 1000:6) [RGM:9|1,350+] (Murray 4000:3|CS / 2|B / 1|WP) (Becker 160:9|11L) (Becker 139:2|19L) (Stokes 100:9) (EPD:FM) (TL:573|#6) | M | Greek | |
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195 | Galileo (319-313 BE) (1564-1642 ACM) |
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2.67 | 77 | (Cattell 1000:46) [RGM:4|1,350+] (Murray 4000:2|CS / 5|P / 2|A) (Gottlieb 1000:4) (Becker 160:2|17L) (Stokes 100:30) (Simmons 100:7) (EP:10) [GPE:5] (GAE:2) (TL:308) | M | Italian | |
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195 | Hermann Helmholtz (134-61 BE) (1821-1894 ACM) |
2.67 | 73 | [RGM:214|1,350+] (Becker 160:121|3L) (Simmons 100:63) (TL:394|#14) | M | German | ||
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195 | Gilbert Lewis (80-9 BE) (1875-1946 ACM) |
2.75 | 70 | [RGM:489|1,350+] (FTS:6) (TL:453|#10) | M | American | ||
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195 | Rene Descartes (339-305 BE) (1596-1650 ACM) |
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3.68 | 53 | (Cattell 1000:23) [RGM:26|1,350+] (Becker 160:37|5L) (Becker 139:3|18L) (Stokes 100:33) (TR:355) (LH:2) (TL:358) | M | French | |
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195 | Pierre Laplace (206-128 BE) (1749-1827 ACM) |
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2.50 | 77 | (Cattell 1000:233) [RGM:315|1,350+] (Murray 4000:8|CS / 4|A) (Becker 160:58|4L) (Simmons 100:29) (GPE:34) (CR:203) Physicist and astronomer; | M | French | |
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195 | Thomas Young (182-126 BE) (1773-1829 ACM) |
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3.48 | 55 | [RGM:772|1,350+] (Murray 4000:19|P) (CR:106) | M | English | |
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195 | Leonhard Euler (248-172 BE) (1707-1783 ACM) |
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2.57 | 76 | (Cattell 1000:512) [RGM:91|1,350+] (Simmons 100:35) | M | Swiss | |
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195 | Robert Hooke (320-252 BE) (1635-1703 ACM) |
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2.91 | 67 | [RGM:372|1,350+] (EPD:F13)
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195 | Voltaire (261-177 BE) (1694-1778 ACM) |
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2.35 | 83 | (Cattell 1000:4) [RGM:62|1,350+] (Murray 4000:7|WL) (Becker 139:32|9L) (Stokes 100:41) (EPD:M7) (GPhE:#) (EPD:M7) (TL:323) Philosopher, writer, encyclopedist, lay physicist; | M | French | |
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195 | Nikola Tesla (99-12 BE) (1856-1943 ACM) |
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2.27 | 86 | [RGM:5|1,350+] (Becker 160:10|11L) | M | Serbian-born American | |
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195 | Henry Adams (117-37 BE) (1838-1918 ACM) |
2.44 | 80 | (RGM:675|1,350+) (GHE:1) (SN:2) (HFET:5) (CR:568) (LH:6) (TC:572|#6) Historian and physico-chemical humanities pioneer;
Noted for his physico-chemical social dynamics (1908) theory of history, a five-decade plus long effort, to apply and utilize the physical sciences, particularly chemistry, physics, and thermodynamics, employing anchor concepts such as the second law, the kinetic theory of gases, Gibbs phase rule (see: social phase), Maxwell's demon, nebular hypothesis, heat death, social gravity, social acceleration theory, etc., in the study of humans, politically, historically, and philosophically, which he viewed as human molecules (or "phases" or equilibrium states, depending), and countries, via the historical rise and fall change perspective; Adams had convinced himself, at the age of 70, that he was a “point” (or phase) on a social three-dimensional physico-chemical thermodynamics surface (aka social phase diagram), as can be visualized on Maxwell’s 1874 “thermodynamic surface” (Ѻ), which he made as a gift for Gibbs. |
M | American | ||
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190 | Vilfredo Pareto (107-32 BE) (1848-1923 ACM) |
2.53 | 75 | [RGM:475|1,350+] [CR:282|#24] | M | French-born Italian | ||
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190 | Carl Gauss (178-100 BE) (1777-1855 ACM) |
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2.47 | 77 | (Cattell 1000:848) (Becker 160:60|4L) (Simmons 100:41) [RGM:11|1,350+] | M | German | |
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190 | Joseph Lagrange (219-142 BE) (1736-1813 ACM) |
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2.47 | 77 | [RGM:41|1,350+] (Becker 160:109|3L) | M | French | |
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190 | Gottfried Leibniz (309-239 BE) (1646-1716 ACM) |
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2.71 | 70 | [RGM:675|1,350+] (Becker 160:79|3L) (Becker 139:18|13L) (Stokes 100:37) | M | German | |
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190 | Empedocles (2450-2390 BE) (495-435 BCM) |
3.17 | 60 | [RGM:432|1,350+] [CR:288|#24] | M | Greek | ||
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190 | Sadi Carnot (159-123 BE) (1796-1832 ACM) |
5.28 | 36 | [RGM:793|1,350+] (TL:441) | M | French | ||
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190 | Erwin Schrodinger (86 BE-6 AE) (1887-1961 ACM) |
2.60 | 73 | [RGM:158|1,350+] (Becker 160:44|5L) (Simmons 100:18) (HFET:11) [CR:229|#31] | M | Austrian | ||
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190 | Francis Bacon (394-329 BE) (1561-1626 ACM) |
2.92 | 65 | [RGM:96|1,350+] (Becker 160:104|2L) (Becker 139:26|11L) (Stokes 100:29) | M | English | ||
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190 | Ludwig Boltzmann (111-49 BE) (1844-1906 ACM) |
3.06 | 62 | [RGM:483|1,350+] (Simmons 100:24) [Kanowitz 50:44] [Cropper 30:1|SM] (GPE:26) (EPD:F15) (FTS:4) (TL:324) Physicist and thermodynamicist, of the Vienna school, a semi-categorized epicenter genius, one of the central founders of statistical thermodynamics, known for his derivation of the probabilistic or logarithmic description of entropy as a function of the molecular distributions of the body; for his 1886 lecture "On the the Second Law of Thermodynamics" applied to evolution; for his 1891 conjecture that energy can be divided "atomically" (which led, via Planck) to the quantum revolution. | M | Austrian | ||
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190 | Baron Holbach (232-166 BE) (1723-1789 ACM) |
2.92 | 65 | [RGM:688|1,350+] [SN:12] (FA:74) (GAE:1) (GPhE:5) (TL:274) Atheism-explicit anti-chance based matter-and-motion philosopher, eponyms: Holbachian, Holbach’s school (Ѻ), Holbach's geometrician (forerunner to Laplace's demon); characterized as the “Newton of the atheists” (Ѻ)(V|1:45) or "the supreme materialist" (Cooper, 1976), even cited so in history of atheism documentaries, and high ranked extreme atheist; in epicenter genius categorizations, was “one member of Voltaire’s circle”, if not the leader, and who; according to Caspar Hakfoort, was one of the stepping stone pioneers of scientism, being generally known for his 1770 The System of Nature: the Laws of Moral and Physical World, referred to by some as an "Atheist’s Bible", wherein saw the universe as nothing more than matter in motion, bound by inexorable natural laws of cause and effect, in which there is “no necessity to have recourse to supernatural powers to account for the formation of things.” | M | German-born French | ||
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190 | Friedrich Nietzsche (111-55 BE) (1844-1900 ACM) |
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3.45 | 55 | [RGM:39|1,350+] (Becker 139:8|17L) (Stokes 100:70) (EPD:F5) (TL:336) | M | German | |
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190 | Pierre Gassendi (363-300 BE) (1592-1655 ACM) |
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3.02 | 63 | [RGM:661|1,350+] | M | French | |
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190 | Paul Dirac (53 BE-29 AE) (1902-1984 ACM) |
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2.31 | 82 | [RGM:201|1,350+] (Becker 160:94|3L) (Simmons 100:20) | M | English-born American | |
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190 | Christiaan Huygens (326-260 BE) (1629-1695 ACM) |
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2.88 | 66 | [RGM:383|1,350+] (Becker 160:55|4L) (Simmons 100:40) (EPD:M8) | M | Dutch | |
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190 | Otto Guericke (353-269 BE) (1602-1686 ACM) |
2.89 | 83 | [RGM:99|1,350+] (EP:10) (GPE:62) (TL:195) Experimental physicist, philosopher, and diplomat, noted for [] | M | German | ||
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190 | Thomas Jefferson (212-129 BE) (1743-1826 ACM) |
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2.29 | 83 | [RGM:78|1,350+] | M | American | |
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190 | Linus Pauling (54 BE-43AE) (1901-1994 ACM) |
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2.04 | 93 | [RGM:430|1,350+] (Becker 160:29|7L) (Simmons 100:16) (HFET:#) | M | American | |
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190 | Wilhelm Ostwald (102-23 BE) (1853-1932 ACM) |
2.44 | 78 | [RGM:87|1,350+] (HFET:4) [CR:298|#20] | M | German | ||
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190 | Archimedes (2242-2167 BE) (287-212 BCM) |
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2.53 | 75 | [RGM:9|1,350+] (Becker 160:13|10L) (Simmons 100:100) | M | Greek | |
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190 | Max Planck (97-8 BE) (1858-1947 ACM) |
2.13 | 89 | [RGM:23|1,350+] (Becker 160:20|8L) (Simmons 100:25) [CR:254|#30] | M | German | ||
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190 | William Shakespeare (391-339 BE) (1564-1616 ACM) |
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3.65 | 52 | [RGM:54|1,350+] | M | English | |
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190 | John Neumann (52 BE-2 AE) (1903-1957 ACM) |
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3.58 | 53 | [RGM:189|1,350+] (Becker 160:142|2L) (Simmons 100:51) (HFET:9) [CR:221|#32] | M | Hungarian-born American | |
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190 | Enrico Fermi (54-1 BE) (1901-1954 ACM) |
3.58 | 53 | [RGM:38|1,350+] (Becker 160:45|5L) (Simmons 100:34) | M | Italian | ||
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190 | Hypatia (1605-1540 BE) (350-415 ACM) |
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2.92 | 65 | [RGM:92|1,350+] (Becker 139:109|3L) (GFG:1) (CR:44) Philosopher, mathematician, physicist, and astronomer;
only known female universal genius, daughter of mathematical astronomer Theon, the last head of the Library of Alexander; noted for being one of the last apex intellects before humanity went into the dark ages; a fabled "last persons to know everything"; noted early irreligionist; credited with the invention of the astrolabe (adjacent); is rumored to have explained the seasonal variations of the apparent size of the sun, and conceived of elliptical orbit heliocentrism; Kepler, Bertrand Russel, and Voltaire praised her; stoned to death. |
F | Greco-Roman Alexandrian | |
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185 | Giordano Bruno (407-355 BE) (1548-1600 ACM) |
3.56 | 52 | [RGM:128|1,350+] | M | Italian | ||
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185 | Blaise Pascal (332-293 BE) (1623-1662 ACM) |
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4.74 | 39 | [RGM:30|1,350+] (Becker 160:38|5L) (Becker 139:50|6L) (EPD:M3) | M | French | |
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185 | Richard Feynman (37 BE-33 AE) (1918-1988 ACM) |
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2.68 | 69 | [RGM:70|1,350+] (Becker 160:98|3L) (Simmons 100:52) (TL:114) | M | American | |
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185 | Epicurus (2296-2225 BE) (341-270 BCM) |
2.61 | 71 | [RGM:108|1,350+] (Becker 139:39|8L) (Stokes 100:11) (TL:368|#16) | M | Greek | ||
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185 | William Thomson (131-48 BE) (1824-1907 ACM) |
2.23 | 83 | (Cattell 1000:989) [RGM:619|1,350+] (Gottlieb 1000:111) (Becker 160:27|7L) (Kanowitz 50:19) (Cropper 30:5|T) (GPE:47) (SIG:6) (EPD:M6) [CR:390|#14] Mathematical physicist and philosopher; | M | Irish-born Scottish | ||
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185 | Pierre Maupertuis (257-197 BE) (1698-1758 ACM) |
3.08 | 60 | [RGM:616|1,350+] | M | French | ||
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185 | Benedict Spinoza (323-278 BE) (1632-1677 ACM) |
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4.20 | 44 | [RGM:116|1,350+] (Becker 139:10|16L) (Stokes 100:36) (EPD:M6) | M | Dutch | |
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185 | Percy Bridgman (73 BE-6 AE) (1882-1961 ACM) |
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2.34 | 79 | [RGM:617|1,350+] | M | American | |
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185 | Thomas Edison (108-24 BE) (1847-1931 ACM) |
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2.20 | 84 | [RGM:147|1,350+] (Becker 160:19|8L) | M | American | |
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185 | Robert Boyle (328-264 BE) (1627-1691 ACM) |
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2.89 | 64 | (Cattell 1000:354) [RGM:529|1,350+] (Murray 4000:6|C) (Gottlieb 1000:142) (Becker 160:39|5L) [Kanowitz 50:41] (GPE:39) (GCE:6) (EPD:M3) [CR:178] Physicist, chemistry, and natural philosopher; | M | Irish | |
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185 | Nicolaus Copernicus (482-412 BE) (1473-1543 ACM) |
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2.64 | 70 | (Cattell 1000:341) [RGM:20|1,350+] (Murray 4000:5|A) (Gottlieb 1000:18) (Becker 160:16|8L) (Stokes 100:25) (Simmons 100:10) [Kanowitz 50:15] (EPD:F3) (GPE:35) (GAE:1) [CR:136] Mathematician, astronomer, and physician;
aka "next Ptolemy" (Reinhold, 1542), noted for [] |
M | Polish | |
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185 | Euclid (2295-2135 BE) (c.340-280 BCM) |
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3.08 | 60 | [RGM:13|1,350+] (Becker 160:34|5L) (Simmons 100:59) | M | Greek | |
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185 | Leon Winiarski (90-40 BE) (1865-1915 ACM) |
3.70 | 50 | [RGM:712|1,350+] (TL:181) | M | Polish-born Swiss | ||
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185 | Norman Dolloff (48 BE-29 AE) (1907-1984 ACM) |
2.40 | 77 | (SN:5|55+) (EvT:21|21+) (CR:41) Metallurgical engineering geologist; noted for his Heat Death and the Phoenix (1975), wherein he gives the following "organism synthesis equation":
He is classified as the transition point mindset of someone grappling to switch from the entropy "order/disorder" model of everything to the "free energy" model of everything; all done in the framework of explicit atheism. |
M | American | ||
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185 | Percy Shelley (163-133 BE) (1792-1822 ACM) |
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6.17 | 30 | [RGM:562|1,350+] (Nelson 19:12) | M | English | |
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185 | Arthur Schopenhauer (167-95 BE) (1788-1860 ACM) |
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2.57 | 72 | [RGM:98|1,350+] (Becker 139:21|12L) (Stokes 100:49) [CR:259|#29] | M | German | |
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185 | Isaac Beeckman (367-318 BE) (1588-1637 ACM) |
3.78 | 49 | M | Dutch | |||
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185 | Desiderius Erasmus (489-418 BE) (1466-1537 ACM) |
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2.68 | 69 | [RGM:82|1,350+] (Becker 139:114|3L) (Stokes 100:27) | M | Dutch | |
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185 | Hero (1945-1885 BE) (c.10-70 ACM) |
3.08 | 60 | [RGM:379|1,350+] | M | Greek | ||
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185 | Alan Turing (43-1 BE) (1912-1954 ACM) |
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4.40 | 42 | [RGM:12|1,350+] (Becker 160:97|3L) (Stokes 100:96) | M | English | |
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185 | Friedrich Schiller (196-150 BE) (1759-1805 ACM) |
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4.02 | 46 | [RGM:37|1,350+] (Stokes 100:46) | M | German | |
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185 | Humphry Davy (177-126 BE) (1778-1829 ACM) |
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3.63 | 51 | [RGM:530|1,350+] (Becker 160:114|3L) (Nelson 19:16) | M | English | |
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185 | Jean Sales (214-139 BE) (1741-1816 ACM) |
2.47 | 75 | [RGM:670|1,350+] | M | French | ||
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185 | Gerald Massey (127-48 BE) (1828-1907 ACM) |
2.34 | 79 | M | English | |||
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185 | John Mill (149-82 BE) (1806-1873 ACM) |
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2.80 | 66 | [RGM:149|1,350+] (Becker 139:16|14L) (Stokes 100:54) | M | English | |
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185 | Sigmund Freud (99-16 BE) (1856-1939 ACM) |
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2.23 | 83 | [RGM:131|1,350+] (Murray 4000:18|M) (Gottlieb 1000:15) (Becker 160:43|5L) (Becker 139:119|3L) (Stokes 100:66) (Simmons 100:6) (Bloom 100:19) (Scott 50:11) (HFET:3) [HD:51] (FA:122) (GA:13) (RMS:75) (GPhE:32) (GSE:#) [CR:337|#17] (CR:301) (LH:4) (TL:306|#21) Psychoanalyst and philosopher; | M | Austrian | |
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185 | Alfred Lotka (75-6 BE) (1880-1949 ACM) |
2.68 | 69 | [RGM:627|1,350+] | M | Austrian-born American | ||
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185 | Auguste Comte (157-98 BE) (1798-1857 ACM) |
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3.19 | 59 | [RGM:890|1,350+] (Becker 139:45|7L) (Stokes 100:55) | M | French | |
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185 | Ctesibius (2240-2177 BE) (c.285-222 BCM) |
2.94 | 63 | [RGM:631|1,350+] | M | Greek | ||
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185 | Thomas Hobbes (367-276 BE) (1588-1679 ACM) |
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2.03 | 91 | [RGM:134|1,350+] (Becker 139:5|17L) (Stokes 100:31) | M | English | |
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185 | Immanuel Kant (231-151 BE) (1724-1804 ACM) |
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2.34 | 79 | [RGM:51|1,350+] (Becker 139:4|18L) (Stokes 100:45) [CR:217|#35] | M | German | |
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185 | William Gilbert (411-352 BE) (1544-1603 ACM) |
3.14 | 59 | [RGM:641|1,350+] (Becker 160:77|3L) | M | English | ||
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185 | Roger Boscovich (244-168 BE) (1711-1787 ACM) |
2.47 | 75 | [RGM:664|1,350+] | M | Croatian | ||
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185 | Emanuel Swedenborg (267-183 BE) (1688-1772 ACM) |
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2.20 | 84 | [RGM:137|1,350+] | M | Swedish | |
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185 | Heraclitus (2490-2405 BE) (c.535-450 BCM) |
2.18 | 85 | [RGM:260|1,350+] (Becker 139:41|7L) (Stokes 100:4) | M | Greek | ||
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185 | Hugo Grotius (372-310 BE) (1583-1645 ACM) |
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2.98 | 62 | [RGM:208|1,350+] | M | Dutch | |
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185 | Satyendra Bose (61 BE-19 AE) (1894-1974 ACM) |
2.31 | 80 | [RGM:855|1,350+] (LGS:1) (CR:11) Mathematical physicist; pronounced: “Shoot-ing-dra Bowce” (Ѻ); noted for his 1919 proof that Planck’s theory of heat radiation could be deduced from Albert Einstein’s theory of photons, for his 1925 prediction, with Einstein, of Bose-Einstein condensate (adjacent), confirmed in 1995; and for his general Bose-Einstein statistics, which bosons obey; mean genius comparison IQ of 187; a top 500 missing genius candidate. (Ѻ) | M | Indian | ||
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185 | Ettore Majorana (49-17 BE) (1906-1938 ACM) |
5.78 | 32 | [RGM:349|1,350+] | M | Italian | ||
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185 | Friedrich Schelling (180-101 BE) (1775-1854 ACM) |
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2.34 | 79 | [RGM:208|1,350+] (Becker 139:117|3L) (Stokes 100:47) | M | German | |
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185 | Jean d'Alembert (238-172 BE) (1717-1783 ACM) |
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2.85 | 65 | [RGM:88|1,350+] (EPD:F12) | M | French | |
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180 | Pythagoras (2525-2445 BE) (c.570-490 BCM) |
2.25 | 80 | [RGM:7|1,350+] (Becker 160:50|4L) (Becker 139:78|4L) (Stokes 100:2) | M | Greek | ||
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180 | Lucretius (2054-2010 BE) (99-55 BCM) |
4.09 | 44 | [RGM:612|1,350+] (Becker 139:106|3L) (Simmons 100:73) [CR:285|#26] | M | Greek | ||
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180 | William Rankine (135-83 BE) (1820-1872 ACM) |
3.46 | 52 | [RGM:679|1,350+] (HFET:2) | M | Scottish | ||
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180 | Niels Bohr (70 BE-7 AE) (1885-1962 ACM) |
2.34 | 77 | [RGM:32|1,350+] (Becker 160:11|11L) (Simmons 100:3) | M | Danish | ||
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180 | Werner Heisenberg (54 BE-21 AE) (1901-1976 ACM) |
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2.43 | 74 | [RGM:36|1,350+] (Becker 160:46|5L) (Simmons 100:15) | M | German | |
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180 | Johannes Kepler (384-325 BE) (1571-1630 ACM) |
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3.10 | 58 | [RGM:36|1,350+] (Becker 160:25|7L) (Simmons 100:9) | M | German | |
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180 | Thales (2579-2501 BE) (c.624-546 BCM) |
2.31 | 78 | [RGM:14|1,350+] (Becker 139:96|3L) (Stokes 100:1) | M | Greek | ||
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180 | Charles Sherrington (98-3 BE) (1857-1952 ACM) |
1.91 | 94 | [RGM:733|1,350+] (Simmons 100:66) (HFET:7) (TL:138|#70) Physiologist, neurologist, and philosopher; | M | English | ||
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180 | Antoine Lavoisier (212-161 BE) (1743-1794 ACM) |
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3.60 | 50 | (Cattell 1000:393) [RGM:160|1,350+] (Murray 4000:5|CS / 1|C) (Gottlieb 1000:67) (Becker 160:17) (Simmons 100:8) (Partington 50:5) (EPD:M5) (GCE:2) (TL:179) Physical chemist; | M | French | |
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180 | Niccolo Machiavelli (486-428 BE) (1469-1527 ACM) |
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3.10 | 58 | [RGM:68|1,350+] (Becker 139:29|10L) (Stokes 100:26) | M | Italian | |
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180 | Mehdi Bazargan (48 BE-40 AE) (1907-1995 ACM) |
2.05 | 88 | (SN:14) (CR:80) Mechanical engineer, thermodynamicist, philosopher and 75th prime minister of Iran (1979);
Noted for his 1956 treatise Thermodynamics of Humans, written during a five-month prison spell (see: genius hiatus effect), for political opposition, in which he attempted to explain the work ethic of the individual in the context of the Islamic teachings and the view that systems, physical or social, evolve towards equilibrium as quantified by a minimum of free energy; first-slating: #95 (Nov 2020). |
M | Iranian | ||
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180 | Michael Faraday (164-88 BE) (1791-1867 ACM) |
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2.40 | 75 | [RGM:18|1,350+] (Becker 160:6|14L) (Simmons 100:11) | M | English | |
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180 | Roger Bacon (741-661 BE) (1214-1294 ACM) |
2.25 | 80 | [RGM:537|1,350+] (Nelson 19:1) | M | English | ||
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180 | Plato (2378-2303 BE) (c.423-348 BCM) |
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2.40 | 75 | [RGM:16|1,350+] (Becker 139:1|19L) (Stokes 100:8) [CR:301|#21] | M | Greek | |
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180 | John Strutt (113-36 BE) (1842-1919 ACM) |
2.37 | 76 | [RGM:684|1,350+] | M | English | ||
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180 | Stephen Hawking (13 BE-64 AE) (1942-2018 ACM) |
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2.37 | 76 | [RGM:65|1,350+] (Becker 160:12|11L) (Simmons 100:54) (CR:144) (LH:4) Astrophysicist; noted for his 1965 PhD thesis, stimulated by research of mathematician Rodger Penrose, and based on Albert Einstein’s 1914 general theory of relativity, which argued that if a star can collapse inwards to form a singularity, coined a “black hole” in 1967 by American physicist John Wheeler, then so to can a singularity explode back outward; thus giving an explanation for the big bang. Hawking is also noted for his 1996 Illustrated: A Brief History of Time, wherein he gives an "entropy of mind" diagram, which he says changes in respect to doing things such as reading a book. Hawking is a key figure in the development of the subject of black hole thermodynamics; and later came out as advocating atheism. | M | English | |
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180 | Strato (c.335-269 BCM) |
2.73 | 66 | M | Greek | |||
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180 | Lawrence Henderson (77-13 BE) (1878-1942 ACM) |
2.86 | 63 | (SN:8) (EvT:19|21+) (CR:250) Physiologist, physico-chemical sociologist, and anti-chance philosopher;
Ran the Harvard Pareto circle; used a synthesis of Willard Gibbs and Vilfredo Pareto for his pioneering "Sociology 23" course, wherein he employed a "box-spring model" of individuals, bound in a society, pictured, to usurp "causality" with "change of state"; the last great theory of all thing theorists or thing philosophers (following Henry Adams). |
M | American | ||
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180 | Cicero (106-43 BCM) |
2.86 | 63 | [RGM:101|1,350+] (Becker 139:105|3L) (Stokes 100:13) | M | Roman | ||
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180 | Leo Tolstoy (127-45 BE) (1828-1910 ACM) |
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2.20 | 82 | [RGM:75|1,350+] (EPD:M2F9) | M | Russian | |
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180 | Bertrand Russell (83 BE-15 AE) (1872-1970 ACM) |
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1.86 | 97 | (RGM:100|1,350+) (Gottlieb 1000:593) (Murray 4000:17|WP) (Becker 139:23) (Listal 100:24) (Stokes 100:77) (EPD:M2F4) (HD:51) (FA:117) (GAE:21) (RGA:10|370+) (GPhE:#) (TL:174) | M | English | |
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180 | Charles Darwin (146-73 BE) (1809-1882 ACM) |
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2.47 | 73 | [RGM:44|1,350+] (Becker 160:7|14L) (Stokes 100:56) (Simmons 100:4) (EPD:M8) [CR:514|#8] | M | English | |
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180 | Napoleon Bonaparte (186-134 BE) (1769-1821 ACM) |
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3.46 | 52 | (Cattell 1000:1) [RGM:154|1,350+] (EPD:F15) (HD:20) (FA:67) (CR:163) (LH:4) (TL:167) | M | French | |
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180 | Alexander Pope (1688-1744 ACM) |
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3.21 | 56 | M | English | ||
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180 | Hendrik Lorentz (1853-1928 ACM) |
2.43 | 74 | [RGM:597|1,350+] | M | Dutch | ||
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180 | Ludwig Buchner (1824-1899 ACM) |
2.40 | 75 | M | German | |||
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180 | Edwin Wilson (76 BE-9 AE (1879-1964 ACM) |
2.12 | 85 | (SN:9) (CR:71) Mathematician, physical economist, and general "polymath" (Weintraub, 1991), whose interests spanned mathematics, physics, statistics, economics, astronomy, and biology; sole protege of Gibbs; taught a physical chemistry based "mathematical economics" course at Harvard (1934 to 1940); Samuelson to use Gibbs "equation 133":
to model economic stability; first-slating: 180|#110 (Nov 2020). |
M | American | ||
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180 | David Hume (244-179 BE) (1711-1776 ACM) |
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2.77 | 65 | [RGM:112|1,350+] (Becker 139:7|17L) (Stokes 100:39) (EPD:F2) | M | Scottish | |
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180 | Heraclides (387-312BC) |
2.40 | 75 | Philosopher and astronomer; proposed that the earth rotates on its axis (compare: Ecphantus (c.500BC)); posited that the soul was light; did battle with Aristotle, supposedly, on the question whether the universe is finite or infinite; and is rumored, according to Simplicius (c.590AD), to have formulated heliocentrism (or at least the precursor model to what Aristarchus (c.240BC) (IQ:175|#244) put into book form); first draft slated at 180|#115, a grade above Aristarchus. | M | Greek | ||
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180 | William Hamilton
(1805-1865) |
(Becker 160:118|3L) (GME:27) [CR:61] Mathematical physicist; noted for his 1834 On a General Method in Dynamics, wherein develops a “characteristic function” or “force function”, later employed by Clausius in his “Mathematical Introduction” to his On the Mechanical Theory of Heat; eponym of the Hamiltonian (compare: Lagrangian and Gibbsian); not to be confused with the metaphysical philosopher William Hamilton (IQ:170|#388); 112-candidate; first-slating:#114 (Nov 2020). | M | Irish | ||||
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180 | Jeremy Bentham (1748-1832) |
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2.14 | 84 | [RGM:727|1,350+] (Becker 139:33|9L) (Stokes 100:53) | M | English | |
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180 | John Milton (1608-1674) |
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2.77 | 65 | [RGM:254|1,350+] | M | English | |
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180 | Bernhard Riemann (1826-1866) |
4.62 | 39 | [RGM:201|1,350+] (Becker 160:125|3L) | M | German | ||
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180 | Michelangelo (1475-1564) |
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2.05 | 88 | [RGM:15|1,350+] | M | Italian | |
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180 | Anaximander (c.610-546BC) |
3.91 | 46 | [RGM:368|1,350+] | M | Greek | ||
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180 | Emilie Chatelet (1706-1749) |
4.18 | 43 | [RGM:783|1,350+] | F | French | ||
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180 | Marie Curie (88-21 BE) (1867-1934 ACM) |
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2.73 | 66 | [RGM:17|1,350+] (Becker 160:4|17L) (Simmons 100:26) (EPD:M10) | F | Polish-born French | |
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180 | Albertus Magnus (1205-1280) |
2.40 | 75 | M | German | |||
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180 | Pierre Teilhard (1881-1955) |
2.47 | 73 | M | French | |||
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180 | Fyodor Dostoyevsky (134-74 BE) (1821-1881 ACM) |
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3.05 | 59 | [RGM:49|1,350+] (EPD:M15) | M | Russian | |
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180 | Marcus Aurelius (1834-1775 BE) (121-180 ACM) |
3.10 | 58 | [RGM:81|1,350+] (Becker 139:42|7L) (Stokes 100:16) (EPD:F3) | M | Roman | ||
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180 | Karl Marx (1818-1883) |
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2.81 | 64 | [RGM:359|1,350+] (Becker 139:12|15L) (Stokes 100:63) | M | German | |
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180 | Leucippus (2455-2390 BE) (c.500-435 BCM) |
2.77 | 65 | [RGM:17|1,350+] [CR:214|#33] | M | Greek | ||
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180 | Parmenides (510-440BC) |
2.58 | 70 | [RGM:330|1,350+] (Becker 139:38|8L) (Stokes 100:5) | M | Greek | ||
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180 | Paolo Sarpi (1552-1623) |
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2.54 | 71 | M | Italian | ||
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180 | Fritz Haber (87-21 BE) (1868-1934 ACM) |
2.77 | 65 | (Becker 160:92) (GCE:30) (EPD:M3W) (CR:62) Physical chemist;
"Haber’s Thermodynamics of Technical Gas Phase Reactions [1905] is the most important contribution to the subject of predicting the course of a chemical reaction from a few characteristic constants of the reacting substances, after the ill-starred attempt of Berthelot.”
Noted for his 1905 Thermodynamics of Technical Gas Phase Reactions, wherein he pioneered some of the precursory work to free energy tables; for his 1907 achievement of ammonia synthesis, which provided a long-sought fertilizer component for crops. |
M | German | ||
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180 | Avicenna (980-1037) |
3.16 | 57 | [RGM:159|1,350+] (Becker 160:31|6L) (Becker 139:31|9L) | M | Persian | ||
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180 | Oliver Heaviside (1850-1925) |
2.43 | 74 | M | English | |||
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180 | Arthur Doyle (1859-1930) |
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2.61 | 69 | [RGM:581|1,350+] | M | English | |
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180 | Anaxagoras (2455-2383 BE) (500-428 BCM) |
2.50 | 72 | (Cattell 1000:703) (ACR:4) (FA:7) (EvT:4|21+) (CR:51) Philosopher, physicist, astronomer; teacher of Socrates; held the view, based on the examination of fallen meteors, that the sun was NOT a "god", but rather a hot or fiery stone (was imprisoned for this); moon light was reflected sunlight; postulated the existence of the element “aether”, which he conceived of as being in constant rotation and carried with it the celestial bodies; added at 180|#131 (c.2018). | M | Greek | ||
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180 | Augustine (354-430) |
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2.40 | 75 | [RGM:251|1,350+] (Becker 139:15|14L) (Stokes 100:19) (AT:1|D) | M | Roman | |
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180 | George Byron (1788-1824) |
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5.00 | 36 | [RGM:1,037|1,350+] | M | English | |
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180 | Alexander Bell (1847-1922) |
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2.40 | 75 | [RGM:45|1,350+] (Becker 160:54|4L) | M | Scottish-born Canadian | |
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180 | Michel Montaigne (1533-1592) |
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3.05 | 59 | [RGM:145|1,350+] | M | French | |
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180 | William Harvey (1578-1657) |
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2.28 | 79 | (Cattell 1000:227) [RGM:540|1,350+] (Murray 4000:7|B) (Becker 160:52|4L) (Simmons 100:38) (Hart 100:49) (Glenn 20:4) (CR:22) Physician;
Overthrew the previous “open-ended” blood circulation models of Erasistratus, Galen, and Colombo, with a “closed-circulatory” system. (Ѻ); speculated on soul as "power" that makes an animal out of an egg; speculated on the origin of life. |
M | English | |
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180 | Frederick Rossini (56 BE-35 AE) (1899-1990 ACM) |
1.98 | 91 | M | American | |||
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180 | Thomas Paine (218-146 BE) (1737-1809 ACM) |
2.50 | 72 | (Cattell 1000:583) [RGM:220|1,350+] (Becker 139:91|4L) (Stokes 100:52) (RMS:24) (HD:15) (FA:44) (GA:28) (AFF:6) (CR:105) Political activist, philosopher, irreligionist, free thinker, and revolutionist;
His The Age of Reason (1794), is the most-widely cited “atheist’s bible”, historically; his is Common Sense (1776) pamphlet, selling some 500,000 copies in the mid 1770s, became the "biggest seller per capita in American publishing history and almost single-handedly sparked the [American] revolution" (Smith, 2013); inspiration behind the BCM/ACM dating system (1802); George Washington carried his books into battle; befriended by: Benjamin Franklin, Thomas Jefferson, and James Monroe; first-slated at 175|#225 (May 2017); upgraded to #139 per Edison genius recognizes genius quote (Jun 2017). |
M | English-born American | ||
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180 | Henry Carey (1793-1879) |
2.09 | 86 | (SN:10) (CR:106) Physical science based sociologist and economist;
known as the ‘Newton of social science’ (see: social Newton), noted for his three-volume 1858 The Principles of Social Science, wherein he uses of physics and chemistry in sociological theory, e.g. his ‘law of molecular gravitation’ which he says accounts the aggregation of people in larger cities, among numerous other theories, e.g. "friction" resulting from the "rubbing together of human molecules"; first-slating: 180|#149 (Nov 2020). |
M | American | ||
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180 | Joseph Fourier (1768-1830) |
2.90 | 62 | (Becker 160:112|3L) | M | French | ||
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180 | Nicholas of Cusa (1401-1464) |
2.86 | 63 | [RGM:394|1,350+] | M | German | ||
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180 | George Green (1793-1841) |
3.67 | 49 | M | English | |||
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180 | Andre Ampere (1775-1836) |
2.95 | 61 | (Cattell 1000:557) [RGM:244|1,350+] (Becker 160:58|4L) [Kanowitz 50:32] (Eells 100:93) (GPE:54) (SIG:6) (CR:15) Physicist and mathematician;
Dubbed the “father of electrodynamics” (Heaviside, 1888); founder of electrodynamics, the study of currents and dynamical movements; a “tortured genius” who had the phrase “Tandem felix” (“Happy, at last”) engraved on his tombstone; gauged at 180-190 (c.2015). |
M | French | ||
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180 | John Dalton (1766-1844) |
2.34 | 77 | [RGM:234|1,350+] (Becker 160:15|9L) (Simmons 100:74) | M | English | ||
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180 | George Berkeley (1685-1753) |
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2.69 | 67 | [RGM:225|1,350+] (Becker 139:30|10L) (Stokes 100:44) | M | Irish-born English | |
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180 | Ivan Pavlov (1849-1936) |
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2.09 | 86 | [RGM:182|1,350+] (Becker 160:127|3L) | M | Russian | |
150. | 180 | Francois Massieu (123-59 BE) (1832-1896 ACM) |
63 | (EPD:F0) (CR:26) Mining engineer, mineralogist, geologist, and mathematical physicist; noted for his 1869 "On the Characteristic Functions of Various Fluids", which was the first systematic discourse on “thermodynamic potentials” (Ѻ) applied to bodies, specifically fluid bodies; some characterize his "Massieu function" as the Legendre transform of entropy; influential to Willard Gibbs, who adopted his Greek letter nomenclature for defining the various thermodynamic functions, as show in the pictured characteristic function notation table.[29]; first-slate: 180|#150 (Dec 2020). | M | French | |||
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180 | James Madison (1751-1836) |
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2.12 | 85 | [RGM:465|1,350+] | M | American | |
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180 | Robert Burton
(1577-1640) |
(CR:19) Scholar and philosopher;
noted for his The Anatomy of Melancholy (1621), wherein he impressively employs electricity (amber), magnetism (loadstone), and heat (warmth) logic to explain love and beauty; hung himself in the same room that Robert Hooke later stayed in as a student; influential to Henry Finck and also Goethe, possibly; 112-candidate; first-slating:#150 (Nov 2020). |
M | English | ||||
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180 | Jean Rousseau (243-177 BE) (1712-1778 ACM) |
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2.73 | 66 | [RGM:118|1,350+] (Becker 139:10|16L) (Stokes 100:42) (EPD:M9D) | M | Genevan | |
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180 | Johannes Widmann
(c.1460-1498) |
Mathematician; noted for his 1489 Mercantile Arithmetic, wherein the “+” and “-“ symbols first appeared in print, albeit, referred to the symbols − and + as minus and mer (Modern German mehr; "more"): "was − ist, das ist minus, und das + ist das mer", albeit in the sense of “surplus” and “deficit”; 112-candidate; first-slating:#150 (Nov 2020). | M | German | ||||
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180 | Gustave Coriolis (1772-1843) |
3.53 | 51 | (SIG:9) (CR:35) Physicist;
noted for his 1829 Calculation of the Effect of Machines, wherein he introduced the formula for work as force times distance; some assert that he introduced the factor ½ in Leibniz’s 1686 vis viva for the sake of mathematical convenience (others say it was Lagrange who did this in 1811); his 1835 paper introduced the Coriolis effect, according to which explains why toilets drain (and people move) clockwise in the northern hemisphere (drive on right side of road) and counterclockwise (drive on left side of road) in the southern hemisphere; first-slating: 180|#150 (Feb 2019). |
M | French | ||
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180 | Jean Fernel (1497-1558) |
2.95 | 61 | M | French | |||
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180 | Pierre Duhem (1861-1916) |
3.27 | 55 | (PEC10:2)[30] (CR:34) Mathematical physicist, chemical thermodynamicist, historian, and philosopher of science, characterized an "uneasy genius" (Demartres, 1892) (Ѻ); noted for his age 26 penned a “Study of the Thermodynamics Works of Willard Gibbs” (1887); gave commentary on the Condemnation of 1277; previous Hmolpedia 2020 candidate (112-names); first-slating: 180|#150 (Nov 2020). | M | French | ||
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180 | Benjamin Franklin (1706-1790) |
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2.14 | 84 | [RGM:31|1,350+] (Becker 160:54|4L) | M | American | |
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180 | Jacobus van't Hoff
(1852-1911) |
(GCE:#) (PEC10:6)[30] (CR:81) Physical chemist; noted for his 1874 pamphlet wherein he formulated the theory of the tetrahedral carbon atom and laid the foundations of stereochemistry; his work in 1884 Studies in Chemical Dynamics, wherein he introduced the two-way reaction arrow “![]() |
M | Dutch | ||||
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180 | Jacob Berzelius (176-107 BE) (1779-1848 ACM) |
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2.65 | 68 | (EPD:F4M9) | M | Swedish | |
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180 | Alexander the Great (356-323BC) |
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5.63 | 32 | [RGM:70|1,350+] | M | Greek | |
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180 | Giacomo Leopardi (1798-1837) |
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4.62 | 39 | [RGM:187|1,350+] | M | Italian | |
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180 | Honore Mirabeau (1749-1791) |
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4.29 | 42 | M | French | ||
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180 | Carl Linnaeus (1707-1778) |
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2.57 | 70 | (Cattell 1000:128) [RGM:129|1,350+] (Becker 160:41|5L) (Simmons 100:76) (CR:32) | M | Swedish | |
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180 | John Bardeen (47 BE-36 AE) (1908-1991 ACM) |
2.20 | 82 | (Becker 160:96|3L) (Simmons 100:50) (EPD:M12) | M | American | ||
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180 | Hermann Minkowski
(1864-1909) |
(GME:#) Mathematician and physicist;
“The views of space and time which I wish to lay before you have sprung from the soil of experimental physics, and therein lies their strength. They are radical. Henceforth space by itself, and time by itself, are doomed to fade away into mere shadows, and only a kind of union of the two will preserve an independent reality.” — Hermann Minkowski (1907), Publication (Ѻ) Noted for his 1907 concept of spacetime, i.e. space and time joined as one new thing, as shown by the grids adjacent, and that Einstein’s special theory of relativity could thus be understood geometrically in four dimensions, Cartesian dimensions plus space-time; mentor to Einstein; 112-candidate; first-slating:#160 (Nov 2020). |
M | German | ||||
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180 | Marquis Condorcet (212-161 BE) (1743-1794 ACM) |
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3.53 | 51 | (EPD:F0) | M | French | |
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180 | John Tukey (40 BE-45 AE) (1915-2000 ACM) |
2.12 | 85 | M | American | |||
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180 | Plutarch (c.46-120) |
2.43 | 74 | [RGM:421|1,350+] | M | Greek-born Roman | ||
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180 | James Froude (1818-1894) |
2.37 | 76 | M | English | |||
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180 | Torbern Bergman (220-171 BE) (1735-1784 ACM) |
3.67 | 49 | [CR:210|#34] | M | Swedish | ||
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180 | Ernest Rutherford (1871-1937) |
2.73 | 66 | [RGM:93|1,350+] (Becker 160:21|8L) (Simmons 100:19) | M | New Zealand-born British | ||
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180 | John Nash (1928-2015) |
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2.06 | 87 | ![]() |
M | American | |
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180 | John Toland (1670-1722) |
3.46 | 52 | M | Irish | |||
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180 | James Joule (1818-1889) |
2.57 | 70 | (Becker 160:62|4L) | M | English | ||
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180 | Robert Mayer (1814-1878) |
2.86 | 63 | (Becker 160:119|3L) | M | German | ||
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180 | Henry Bray (1846-1922) |
2.37 | 76 | Priest turned physician and philosopher; noted for his 1910 The Living Universe, wherein he outlines a Goethe-Haeckel-Huxley stylized divine-causality ingrained physicochemical-monism, aka living universe theory, a book generally classified as the last intellectually-sober attempt at panbioism (the stepping-stone to abioism). | M | English-born American | ||
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180 | Socrates (c.469-399BC) |
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2.57 | 70 | [RGM:3|1,350+] (Becker 139:14|14L) (Stokes 100:7) | M | Greek | |
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180 | Jonathan Swift (1667-1745) |
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2.34 | 77 | [RGM:326|1,350+] | M | Anglo-Irish | |
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180 | Joseph Black (1728-1799) |
2.54 | 71 | (Nelson 19:15) | M | Scottish | ||
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180 | Ole Romer
(1644-1710) |
(CR:6) Astronomer; noted for 1675 theory that the apparent anomalies in the apparent movement of the moons of Jupiter, which depended on what season the earth was in, i.e. Jupiter at conjunction (sun between earth and Jupiter) or opposition (earth between sun and moon), could be explained by light having a finite velocity; for his 1676 calculation of the speed of light of earth orbital radius divided by 22 minutes or 220,000 km/s (as calculated later by Christiaan Huygens); and for his 1701 thermometer, fixed at the freezing point and boiling point of water, an model that later influenced Daniel Fahrenheit (c.1708); 112-candidate; first-slating:#325 (Nov 2020). | M | Danish | ||||
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180 | Joseph Priestley (1733-1804) |
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2.57 | 70 | [RGM:885|1,350+] (Becker 160:81|3L) | M | English | |
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180 | Heinrich Hertz (1857-1894) |
5.00 | 36 | [RGM:144|1,350+] (Becker 160:67|4L) | M | German | ||
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180 | Edward Gibbon (1737-1794) |
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3.21 | 56 | M | English | ||
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180 | Etienne Geoffroy (1672-1731) |
3.05 | 59 | M | French | |||
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180 | Ludwig Beethoven (185-128 BE) (1770-1827 ACM) |
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3.21 | 56 | (Cattell 1000:220) [RGM:19|1,350+] (Murray 4000:1|WM) (GMG:1) (CR:8) Pianist and composer;
Note for his 9th symphony, 5th symphony, moonlight sonata, etc.; upgraded from 170|#309 to 180|#170 (Feb 2018). |
M | German | |
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180 | Augustin Fresnel (1788-1827) |
4.62 | 39 | Engineer-physicist;
co-founder, with Thomas Young, of the wave theory of light; 2018 missing (Ѻ) GPE candidate; first-slating: 180|#170 (Mar 2018). |
M | French | ||
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180 | Denis Diderot (1713-1784) |
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2.57 | 70 | (Becker 139:70|5L) (Stokes 100:43) | M | French | |
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180 | Bernard Shaw
(1856-1950) |
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1.91 | 94 | M | English | ||
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180 | Henri Poincare (101-43 BE) (1854-1912 ACM) |
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3.10 | 58 | [RGM:437|1,500+] [LPKE:12] (GME:9) (GPE:63) [CR:79] Mathematical physicist;
Known for: Poincare conjecture, relativity, thermodynamics, mathematics, economics; said to have scored at the “imbecile” level on the Binet IQ test (see: miscalculated IQ); first slated: 185-195|#40 (c.2016); down-graded: 180|#180 (Apr 2020). |
M | French | |
191. | 180 | Johannes van der Waals (1837-1923) |
85 | (CR:28) Physical chemist;
noted for his 1873 On the Continuity of Gas and Liquid State[33], wherein, based on Clausius’ “On the Kind of Motion we call Heat”, he derived an equation of state for a gas-approaching-liquid state, based on experimental data, and therefrom measured molecular attraction, aka dispersion forces or van der Waals force (posited 100-years prior by Priestley), and calculated the size of molecules; one of the three chiefs of the “Dutch school” of thermodynamics, along with Van’t Hoff and Roozeboom; pictured is his energy surface for (Boerhaave Museum, Leiden); influences: Clausius, James Maxwell, Ludwig Boltzmann, and Willard Gibbs;
Erich Muller (1998) theorized that social forces are a type of van der Waals dispersion force; Jose Aguilera (2012) likens a marriage bond to a weaker type of covalent bond and or Van der Waals interaction force; first-slate: 180|#190 (Dec 2020). |
M | Dutch | |||
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180 | Soren Kierkegaard (1813-1855) |
4.29 | 42 | (Becker 139:22|12L) (Stokes 100:69) | M | Danish | ||
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180 | Philipp Melanchthon
(1497-1560) |
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2.86 | 63 | M | German | ||
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180 | Jacques Bossuet
(1627-1704) |
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2.37 | 76 | (Cattell 1000:61) Cleric, Bishop, preacher, political philosopher, theologian, and writer; noted for his Discourse on Universal History (1681) (Ѻ), regarded by many as a “second edition” of Augustine’s City of God (426AD), which had addressed theological puzzles, such as suffering of the righteous, the existence of evil, the conflict between free will and divine omniscience, and the doctrine of original sin. (Ѻ) | M | French | |
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180 | John Locke
(1632-1704) |
2.50 | 72 | (Becker 139:6|17L) (Stokes 100:38) | M | English | ||
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180 | Charlemagne
(c.742-814) |
2.50 | 72 | M | Frankish | |||
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180 | Denis Papin
(1647-1712) |
2.73 | 66 | M | French | |||
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180 | Athanasius Kircher
(1602-1680) |
2.31 | 78 | M | German | |||
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180 | Alexander Humboldt (186-96 BE) (1769-1859 ACM) |
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2.02 | 89 | (Cattell 1000:94) [RGM:133|1,350+] (Becker 160:113|3L) (CR:15) Geographer, naturalist, explorer, romantic philosopher;
A fabled "last person to know everything" [34] and oft-characterized polymath; younger brother to Wilhelm Humboldt [RGM:47|1,350+]; in Jena (1797), with his brother Wilhelm, Friedrich Schiller, and Johann Goethe, the four discussed, in Goethe's own words, “all of nature from the perspectives of philosophy and science”; in c.1800, proposed that South America and Africa were both joined (see: Pangea); in his 1844 multi-volume Cosmos, he attempted to sketch out a physical description of the universe. |
M | Prussian | |
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180 | Genghis Kahn
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2.77 | 65 | M | Mongolian |
Data analysis
Of note, in the top 200 (29 Oct 2020), we have, in terms of sex: 3 females; in terms of nationality: 38 English, 32 French, 27 Germans, 22 Greeks, 16 Americans, 11 Italians, 6 Dutch, 4 Swedish, 4 Scottish, 3 Austrians, 3 Romans, 3 Russians, 3 English-born Americans, 2 Danish, 2 Irish, 2 German-born Americans, 1 Anglo-Irish, 1 Austrian-born American, 1 Croatian, 1 Frankish, 1 French-born Italian, 1 Genevan, 1 German-born French, 1 Greco-Roman Alexandrian, 1 Greek-born Roman, 1 Hungarian-born American, 1 Indian, 1 Irish-born English, 1 Irish-born Scottish, 1 Mongolian, 1 New Zealand-born English, 1 Persian, 1 Polish, 1 Polish-born French, 1 Polish-born Swiss, 1 Prussian, 1 Scottish-born Canadian, 1 Serbian-born American, 1 Swiss.
Point
A "point” is made, herein, to distinguish between “profound geniuses”, e.g. Goethe, Shelley, Gibbs, Maxwell, etc., “mundane geniuses”, e.g. Benz, Hollerith, Guttenberg, etc., and "niche geniuses", e.g. Jenkins, a recent steroid chemistry genius. Thinkers, herein, said another way, are gauged in respect to the size of the "fish" they went after. There are, in this sense, "big fish geniuses" and "little fish geniuses". In other words, while some may "think about flying", e.g. Da Vinci, others "fly", e.g. Montgolfier, some “fly us the moon”, e.g. Braun, a rare few, e.g. Aristotle, ruminate on "why" we fly (or move) in the first place, particularly in respect to the more deeply-puzzled words “love” [36] and "meaning", and a few from a universal perspective.[37]
Geniuses | Higher minds
The following are the so-called "higher minds" rankings (next: 1-200, 201-400, 401-600, 601-800, 801-1,000, 1,001-1,200, 1,201-1,400, 1,401-1,600, 1,601-1,800, 1,801-2,000) of envisioned higher-then-human-intelligence conceptualized "minds", either futuristic, e.g. Hari Seldon, legendary, e.g. Faust, scientific "minds", e.g. Boscovich's "finite mine", or "demons"[38], e.g. Maxwell's demon, among newer fictional[39] geniuses, e.g. Eddie Morra, who takes "mind pills" so to tap into his James-based unrealized 90% unused mind potential (see: 10 percent myth); the majority of which being devised by actual geniuses; each character is shown with crudely-guesstimated hypothetical IQ () of such a "mind" were it to exist:
# | Intellect | IQ Intellect | Abilities | Inventor | Inventor IQ | Country | |
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1. | Holbach's geometrician[40] (1770) |
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An anti-chance, atheism-explicit, atomic theory based intellect, able to understand and see all revolutions in the universe, from both the physics and moral point of view, by “exactly” knowing the “communicated forces” and “different energies acting in each case”, and therein have an understanding capacitated to rate all the action and re-action, of the minds and bodies of those who contributed to the revolution. | Baron d'Holbach (232-166 BE) (1723-1789 ACM) |
(IQ:190|#31) | German-French | |
2. | Faust[41][42] (c.1520) |
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Based on the semi-legendary Johann Faust (c.1485-c.1540), who, as the legend goes, after going through all of the branches of knowledge, e.g. arts, science, theology, jurisprudence, medicine, law, philosophy, etc., in search of truth, meaning, and understanding, but finding only polemics, exegesis, dogmatism, babble, distortions, along with “shadows, vapors, follies, bound into a system”, and "vanity", seeks out the "devil" who tells him the answer to every question he asks, therein satisfying his mind, albeit in return for the sale of his soul.[43] | Johann Goethe (206-123 BE) (1749-1832 ACM) |
(IQ:210|#1) | German | |
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Nietzsche's uberman[44][45][46]
(1883) |
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Someone, in the future, who introduces a new value system, not tied to the “other-worldliness” of current religions, such as Christianity, but to the real “earthly-world”, who, therein, banishes nihilism, and fills the growing moral vacuum, formed in the wake of the death of belief in the existence of god (see: god is dead); moreover, someone who frees people from “speaking like children”, in employing rote phrases such as “I am body and soul”, but rather says, when “awakened and enlightened” (Thus Spoke Zarathustra, pg. 61), something akin to: “I am body entirely, and nothing beside’ and ‘soul’ is only a word for some ‘thing’ in the body”; some have claimed that Nietzsche, in his writings, alluded to the following uberman model archetypes: Socrates, Caesar, da Vinci, Michelangelo, Shakespeare, Goethe, and Napoleon (Hayes, 2002); Nietzsche, himself, in his last 1887 will to power fragments, cites: Caesar, Homer, Aristophanes, da Vinci, and Goethe, as examples of “great human beings”; Heraclitus is frequently employed in his writings; many consider Goethe as the closest Nietzsche came to naming the Ubermensch.[47] | Friedrich Nietzsche (111-55 BE) (1844-1900 ACM) |
(IQ:190|#29) | German | |
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Adams' another Newton[48] (1910) |
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A future person, who firstly comes to define themselves as either a "phase" (see: social phase) or a "human molecule", in a physico-chemical sense, and is able to model all of human history, including interpersonal sexual relationships, and the rise and falls of civilizations, and the seeming "cause and effect" details of government, e.g. the years of Jefferson administration, via the chemical thermodynamics of Willard Gibbs, scaled up to social dynamics. | Henry Adams (117-37 BE) (1838-1918 ACM) |
(IQ:195|#19) | American | |
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Laplace's demon
(1814) |
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An intellect who knows the precise location an momentum of every atom in the universe, then, using Newton’ laws of motion, could reveal the entire course of cosmic events, past and future; a variant of Holbach's geometrician. | Pierre Laplace (206-128 BE) (1749-1827 ACM) |
(IQ:195|#14) | French | |
6. | Hawking's mind of god
(1963) |
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“Before we understand science, it is natural believe that god created the universe. But now science offers a more convincing explanation. What I meant [in A Brief History of Time (1988) (Ѻ)] by ‘we would know the mind of god’ is, we would know everything that god would know, if there were a god. Which there isn’t. I’m an atheist.”
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Stephen Hawking (13 BE-64 AE) (1942-2018 ACM) |
(IQ:180|#99) | English | |
7. | Boscovich's finite mind
(1763) |
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A finite, brilliant, powerful “mind”, that surpasses all the powers of the human intellect, but like a “geometer can easily see thus far, that problems are determinate”, is able to use the “law of force” to measure the curves of motion of all points of matter, and therein “to foresee all the necessary subsequent motions and states, and to predict all the phenomena that necessarily followed from them”. | Roger Boscovich (244-168 BE) (1711-1787 ACM) |
(IQ:185|#77) | Croatian | |
8. | Wheeler's super-Einstein[49]
(c.1925) |
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Someone, in the future, who can unify “theoretical biology”, in respect to “emergence, the physicochemical, the organismal, the mental and the social”, applicable to both human societies and insect societies; it was posited, by Wheeler, that it will take a “few” such super-Einsteins to do the job; he might have had Lawrence Henderson in mind as a prototype or archetype. | William Wheeler (1865-1937) |
American | ||
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Morpheus[39]
(1999) |
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Lana Wachowski (1965-) Lilly Wachowski |
American | |||
10. | Yoda
(1977-) |
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George Lucas (1944-) |
American | |||
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Maxwell's demon (1867) |
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An intelligent being that is able to "see" the speeds of atoms and molecules (in a gas), and thus separate them into slow (cold) and fast (hot) groupings, and thus circumvent or reverse the second law of thermodynamics. | James Maxwell (124-76 BE) (1831-1879 ACM) |
(IQ:205|#4) | Scottish | |
12. | Hari Seldon[51] (1942) |
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A professor, from the far distant future, who uses the kinetic theory of gases to devise a a new science called “psychohistory”, which is able to predict the “overall behavior of human societies even though the solutions would not apply to the behavior of individual human beings”, and thereby predict the eventual fall of the Galactic Empire. | Isaac Asimov (35 BE-37 AE) (1920-1992 ACM) |
(IQ:170|#367) | American | |
13. | Fosdick's new Aristotle[48]
(1924) |
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Someone able to find or discern a "moral equivalent of war". | Raymond Fosdick (1883-1972) |
American | ||
14. | Huxley's demon[38]
(c.1869) |
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A "sufficient intellect", with knowledge of the properties of the molecules and forces possessed by the molecules of the primitive nebulosity (see: nebular hypothesis), able to predict the state of fauna of Great Britain with as much certainty as one could predict the vapor of one’s breath on a cold winter day. | Thomas Huxley
(1825-1895) |
(IQ:170|#344) | English | |
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Victor Frankenstein (1818) |
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A scientist, framed around the figures: Cornelius Agrippa, Paracelsus, and Albertus Magnus, partly based on Luigi Galvani's electrified twitching frog legs experiments, who is able to create "life" in the laboratory; character arose from Mary Shelley listening to Percy Shelley and George Byron debate the subject. | Mary Shelley (158-104 BE) (1797-1851 ACM) |
(IQ:175|#306) | English | |
16. | Leibniz's prophet[53]
(c.1710) |
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A scientific “prophet” who had a “sufficient insight into the inner parts of things, and in addition had remembrance and intelligence enough to consider all the circumstances and take them into account, he would see the future, since everything proceeds mathematically, in the present as in a mirror." | Gottfried Leibniz (309-239 BE) (1646-1716 ACM) |
(IQ:190|#23) | German | |
17. | Richard Reeds[39]
(1961) |
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A child prodigy, who possesses a keen scientific intellect, decades ahead of his time, whose intelligence has recently been augmented by his new powers; holds multiple doctoral level degrees in theoretical and applied physics fields. | Stan Lee (1922-2018) |
American | ||
18. | Will Hunting
(1997) |
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A person who is able to read books, and all subjects, e.g. math, physics, chemistry, literature, history, etc., at a rate of books per hour, and be able to remember ever word, citation, and date; loosely based on American child prodigy William Sidis (IQ:175|#314) who graduated from Harvard at age 16, whose IQ was famously over-estimated to be in the 250 to 300 range (Sperling, 1946) and to have been a prodigy equivalent to Gauss (Comstock, c.1915). | Matt Damon (1970-) |
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American | |
19. | Fred Tait
(1991) |
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A 7-year old child prodigy, who scores “off the charts on the Stanford-Binet IQ” test, with seemingly endless mathematical and musical abilities, who studies quantum mechanics in college; but who is “emotionally” withdrawn and observational; character thematic, in some sense, to Jody Foster, a former child prodigy, who directed the film. | Scott Frank (1960-) |
American | ||
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Eddie Morra
(2001) |
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A struggling writer who, when talking a nootropic drug called NZT-48, has the ability to enabling its user to see meaningful patterns in large amounts of disparate data, thereby fully utilize the brain, after which he writes best-selling books, learn new languages, master the stock market, becomes knowledgeable about medicine, becomes a big business decision maker, etc., growing to an auto-claimed IQ of "four digits"; based on the 2001 techno-thriller novel The Dark Fields. | Alan Glynn (1960-) |
Irish | ||
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Chris Knight
(1985) |
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A CalTech genius who invents a laser that can incinerate people from space, using a tracking device, but when he realizes its designed purpose, uses it to make a house full of popcorn; from the classic 1985 film Real Genius, where there also is the character Mitch Taylor, a new bright child prodigy, and Lazlo Hollyfeld, an old star genius, who “cracked”, but whose IQ or smartness is said to be higher than Knight and Taylor combined, but is now a recluse. | Martha Coolidge (1946-) |
American | ||
22. | Sheldon Cooper
(2007) |
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Lead "genius" behind the TV show The Big Bang Theory; said to have an eidetic memory who possesses an extensive general knowledge in many subjects including: physics, chemistry, biology, astronomy, cosmology, algebra, calculus, differential equations, vector calculus, computers, electronics, economics, vexillology, engineering, history, geography, linguistics, Finnish, and Mandarin Chinese; modeled on Leon Cooper (1930-). | Chuck Lorre (1952-) |
American |
Notes
N1. Per the the original tentative 1916 Terman "genius" / " non-genius" divide, as being people with determined IQ numbers "above 140" (141, 142, 143, etc.), defined as being "genius" or "near genius"; in addition to the following clarification:
- “Genius and ‘near’ genius. Intelligence tests have not been in use long enough to enable us to DEFINE genius definitely in terms of IQ.”
- — Lewis Terman (1916), The Measurement of Intelligence (pg. 101) [57]
which was expanded upon when Catherine Cox, Terman's graduate student, together with Maud Merrill, selected the top 300 minds, born between 1450 and 1850, from the Cattell 1000, and "classified" all of them as being "geniuses", specifically in the book's title Early Mental Traits of 300 Geniuses, assigning 289 of them to have IQs of 140 or above (see: Cox-Terman-Merrill IQ scale); a genius IQ cutoff that was later criticized by the so-called "Hollingworth objection" (1938), namely that an IQ of 140 was "too low" a genius / non-genius divide, as it captures too much of the population, in attempts to classify what, in reality, is a VERY "rare" phenomenon, historically speaking, it may be that the "top 2000" will need to grow to a finalized two-thousand "solid" intellectually-focused names, after which we will be able to "see" where, realistically, the genius / very high intellects divide falls?
Quotes
The following are related quotes:
- “IQ is thought to be a measure which expresses the relative brightness or intelligence of any given individual.”
- — Catherine Cox (1926), The Early Mental Traits of Three Hundred Geniuses (pg. 47)
- “Lestrade (Ѻ) to be let loose on such a study is exactly as pathetic as for a subnormal waitress in the IQ of 90 range to try to measure the intellectual differences in college students.”
- — John Platt (1962), “The Coming Generation of Genius” (pg. 73)
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References
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- ↑ The real IQ of each person has been adjusted to fit realistically around the two century-plus digested Cox-Buzan-Platt-Thims IQs, namely those of Newton (
= 199) and Darwin (
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- ↑ Not Enough Artists (2013) – Hmolpedia Forum.
- ↑ Van der Waals, Johannes. (1873). On the Continuity of the Gaseous and Liquid State. Dover, 2004.
- ↑ Last person to know everything (subdomain) – Hmolpedia 2020.
- ↑ How smart was Genghis Kahn? (2017) – Quora.
- ↑ Note: the Hmolpedia “equation of love” is the most-liked of 5,376-articles of Hmolpedia 2020.
- ↑ This ranking note “point” was made while listening to ABBA’s 1975 song “I Do, I Do, I Do, I Do, I Do”, the opening verse of which is: “Love me (bond) or leave me (de-bond); Make your ‘choice’ (force of chemical affinity, pre-Helmholtz era (c.1200-1882); the Gibbs energy of the system, post-Helmholtz era (1882-forward)) but believe me; I love you; I do, I do, I do, I do, I do; I can't conceal it; Don't you see?; Can't you ‘feel’ it?; Don't you too?; I do, I do, I do, I do, I do”. Those geniuses who attempt to decode the nearly-intractable terms: “feelings” and “choice”, and are close to successful at it, tend to be more profound.
- ↑ 38.0 38.1 Scientific demon (subdomain) – Hmolpedia 2020.
- ↑ 39.0 39.1 39.2 Greatest fictional geniuses ever (subdomain) – Hmolpedia 2020.
- ↑ Holbach’s geometrician (subdomain) – Hmolpedia 2020.
- ↑ Faust (subdomain) – Hmolpedia 2020.
- ↑ Faustian (subdomain) – Hmolpedia 2020.
- ↑ Johann Faust (subdomain) – Hmolpedia 2020.
- ↑ 44.0 44.1 Uberman (subdomain) – Hmolpedia 2020.
- ↑ Ubermensch – Wikipedia.
- ↑ Did Nietzsche personally consider himself an Ubermensch? (2018) – Quora.
- ↑ Passages validating Goethe as Nietzsche’s Ubermensch? (2011) – Philosophy, StockExchange.com.
- ↑ 48.0 48.1 Another Newton (subdomain) – Hmolpedia 2020.
- ↑ Few super-Einsteins (subdomain) – Hmolpedia 2020.
- ↑ What is the IQ of the Star Wars main characters? (2019) – Quora.
- ↑ Hari Seldon (subdomain) – Hmolpedia 2020.
- ↑ Frankenstein IQ (2010) – Yahoo Answers]
- ↑ Laplace’s demon – InformationPhilosopher.com
- ↑ What is the estimate of Reed Richard’s IQ? (2017) – Quora.
- ↑ What could be the estimated IQ of Will Hunting? (2016) – Quora.
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- ↑ Terman, Lewis. (1916). The Measurement of Intelligence: an Explanation of and a Complete Guide for the Use of the Stanford Guide for the Use of the Stanford Revision and Extension of the Binet-Simon Intelligence Scale (classification of intelligence, pg. 79; genius IQ, pg. 101). Houghton Mifflin Co.
- ↑ IQ ranking methodology
External links
- Thims, Libb. (2017). “Top 100 Geniuses” (Ѻ), YouTube, Human Chemistry 101, Nov 24.