IQ or Intelligence Quotient is often considered a measure of a person's intelligence.
This test itself is aimed at measuring cognitive abilities, and knowing a person's intellectual potential and abilities. Therefore, it is not surprising that it is often carried out when children enter school to find out their interests and talents, to the employee selection process.
IQ scores can range from 69 and below (very low) to 130 and above (very superior). But there are some people who can reach far above that, up to a score of 200 you know!
Albert Einstein has been known as a genius of all time. He is known to have an IQ score between 160-190. Well, below is a list of people who also have a high IQ whose names are not as familiar as Einstein:
Edith Stern
Is a mathematician and investor from the US who has an IQ of up to 200+. Because of his genius, at the age of 12 he was already in college and three years later he became the youngest graduate of Florida Atlantic University.
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Marilyn Vos Savant
The woman who was born in 1946 is a writer, columnist, and lecturer from the US. He often answered the most difficult questions from readers as a columnist. Citing the Science Trends (2020) page, Marylin's IQ is 228.
Christopher Michael Langan
Christopher has been known as the smartest person in the US. In addition he also developed a theory "Cognitive-Theoretical Model of the Universe" which suggests the relationship between thought and reality. His IQ score reaches 190-210.
Mislav Predavec
He is a Croatian professor of mathematics and the founder and president of GenerIQ, an elite organization where the world's geniuses gather. He is known to have an IQ score of 190.
Garry Kasparov
Kasparov is a native Russian and is considered by some to be the greatest chess player of all time. As a testament to his brilliance, he once played a game with IBM's Deep Blue, a chess computer that could calculate 100 million moves per second. Kasparov is also the record holder with the highest number of consecutive wins. His IQ score reached 194.
Kim Ung-Yong
Kim Ung-Yong was born in Korea in 1963 and started speaking at the age of six months. By the time he was 3 years old, he could read English, Korean, Japanese, and German. Ung-Young currently spends most of his time doing research and teaching at Chungbuk National University, South Korea. The IQ score is 210.
Terence Tao
Born into a Chinese family in 1975, Terence showed an extraordinary talent for mathematics at a very early age. He had earned his doctorate when he was only 20 years old. In 2006, he received the Fields Medal, an award considered the equivalent of the Nobel Prize in mathematics, but is awarded every four years. His IQ score reaches 225-230.
Ainan Celeste Cawley
Ainan Celeste is a genius from Singapore who has the highest IQ score in the world, which is 263. Ainan also became the youngest person in the world to pass the O-Chemical level at the age of 7 years. At the age of 8, he took Chemistry courses at Singapore Polytechnic (a higher education institution in Singapore).
William James Sidis
William James, who had an IQ score of 250-300, was raised in an intellectual family. By the age of 5, he was already operating a typewriter and learning Latin, Greek, Russian, French, German and Hebrew. Sidis also gave his first very famous lecture on 4-dimensional physics at Harvard University at the age of 11. However, unfortunately Sidis died of a stroke at the age of 46 years.
Christopher Hirata
Christopher Hirata is a former child prodigy who is also a cosmologist. He is the youngest American to win a gold medal at the 1996 International Physics Olympiad at the age of 13. At the age of 16, he was involved in the NASA project and graduated from the prestigious Princeton University at the age of 22.