“the very highest that had ever been obtained”
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William James Sidis
William James Sidis was an American child prodigy with mathematical and linguistic skills. He was active as a mathematician, linguist, historian, and author. He wrote the book The Animate and the Inanimate, published in 1925, in which he speculated about the origin of life in the context of thermodynamics. His works were published under various pseudonyms, as he never used his real name as an auth…
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science · American child prodigy (1898–1944) · mathematician · anthropologist · historian · linguist · inventor · writer · peace activist · language inventor · also William James Sidis, Sidis
Born 1 April 1898 · Died 17 July 1944 · Q313603
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1944· 1 entry
Died 1944-07-17.
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1937· 1 entry
In an article in The New Yorker titled "Where Are They Now
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1935· 1 entry
Wrote an unpublished manuscript, The Tribes and the States, which traces Native American contributions to American democracy
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1933· 2 entries
Sidis passed a Civil Service exam in New York, but scored a low ranking of 254
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Was an IQ test and that his ranking of 254 was an IQ score of 254
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1930· 1 entry
Sidis received a patent for a rotary perpetual calendar that took into account leap years
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1926· 1 entry
Hosted by Winifred Sackville Stoner's League for Fostering Genius in Tuckahoe, New York
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1925· 2 entries
But it has been suggested that Sidis was working on the theory as early as 1916
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In which he speculated about the origin of life in the context of thermodynamics
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1921· 1 entry
Sidis was determined to live an independent and private life
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1919· 1 entry
Shortly after his withdrawal from law school, Sidis was arrested for participating in a socialist May Day parade in Boston that turned violent
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1914· 2 entries
Studied at Harvard University (1914).
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“I want to live the perfect life. The only way to live the perfect life is to live it in seclusion”
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1910· 1 entry
And earned his Bachelor of Arts degree, cum laude, on June 18, 1914, at age 16, earning a mixture of A, B and C grades
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1909· 2 entries
At age 11, Sidis set a record by becoming the youngest person to enroll at Harvard University
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The New York Times derisively portrayed Sidis as "a wonderfully successful result of a scientific forcing experiment"
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1898· 1 entry
Born 1898-04-01.
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1887· 1 entry
To escape political and antisemitic persecution
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