It is estimated that Albert Einstein had an IQ of 160, Isaac Newton of 190, and Mark Zuckerberg of 152. These people are known around the world as the greatest geniuses.
However, there was one man whose IQ was believed to be between 250 and 300! Have you ever heard of a man named William James Sidis?
This is a man who was once considered a miracle child. He was an outstanding mathematician, the most intelligent man in history, a polyglot and a gifted writer.
William was born in New York in 1898. His father Boris was a distinguished psychologist who was proud of four degrees from Harvard University.
His mother was also a doctor. As his parents were smart and successful people, they expected the same from their son. But he surpassed all assumptions and proved to be far more than the average person.
He inherited his love for learning foreign languages from his father Boris, who was known as an excellent polyglot.
Under his father's influence, he developed his potential and reportedly read the New York Times at just 18 months old.
By the age of eight, he had learned Latin, Greek, French, Russian, German, Hebrew, Turkish, and Armenian on his own. In addition, little William invented his own language and called it Wendergood.
Aware of his son's above-average intelligence, Boris Sidis tried to enroll him at Harvard, but was rejected because William was only nine years old.
Two years later, in 1909, the University accepted the application and so William became the youngest person enrolled at Harvard.
By 1910, his knowledge of mathematics had increased so much that professors allowed William to teach in class.
They called him a child prodigy.
By the age of 16, he also obtained a degree in art studies. Shortly after graduation, William told reporters that he wanted to live a "perfect life", which in his opinion was the only lonely life.
He also announced that he would never marry.
The fame he gained but did not want it, his decision was reflected in the pressure that William suffered from his parents.
Since he himself was respectable and famous, William's father wanted to make his son a star. In order to achieve that, he began to apply his knowledge of psychology to his son and terribly pressured and forced him.
Although William enjoyed learning as a child, when he grew up his opinion changed and he blamed his father for everything.
How angry he was with his father is also shown by the fact that, when Boris passed away in 1923, William refused to come to his funeral.
As geniuses usually did so in order not to stand out in any way, William also did low-paid and ordinary work.
He got a job as an assistant priest, but people still recognized him, so he changed that job as well.
In 1924, journalists discovered that William was doing a low-paid manual job, but this time the hymns about the rebellious genius were missing - now the newspaper headlines mocked the former miracle of a child and pointed out that William could no longer do what he could as a child.
This, of course, was not true, which was later shown through the multitude of priceless books that William wrote during his lifetime under various false names.
Although he tried to live illegally, William was arrested in 1919 as a participant in a violent protest in Boston and sentenced to 18 months in prison.
However, the parents found a way to release him from prison and instead, they locked his son in a sanatorium for two years. William spent his whole life completely lonely and upset. He became estranged from his family and started working as a machine worker to make ends meet.
William James Sidis, a man who could change the world, passed away suddenly at the age of 46, due to a brain hemorrhage, from which his father also died.
That's pretty amazing. But why he is not popular as much as newton, Einstein? What is the reason?