The 10 smartest people on the planet and their IQ

Who are the smartest people in the world?

A recent study has chosen the ten brightest thinking heads in the world; the smartest people on the face of the Earth. All of these belong geniuses to 0.5% of the population with an IQ greater than 140 points, the figure that is considered to mark the limit between giftedness and genius.

In a previous article we talked about genius personality traits, but today we will put face, name and surname to some of them.

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People with the highest IQ (intelligence quotient) on the planet

Among the chosen, many familiar faces. This list made by the entity Super Scholar He has selected ten subjects who combined IQ above 140 with great performance in his professional life.

Various physicists in positions of honor

Number one on the list is the brilliant physique Stephen Hawking, with a 160 point IQ. With his famous research on the origin of the universe or the theories of space-time, Hawking is considered one of the most prolific and outstanding scientists of our time. Sick of

Amyotrophic Lateral SclerosisHe has been seriously disabled since his youth, a condition that has not prevented him from studying the world of matter in depth and offering lectures around the globe.

One of the most notable cases among those chosen is that of Kim Ung-Yong, a South Korean who since childhood was already reported as an extraordinary case of a child prodigy. With only 3 years of life, Ung-Yong could read Korean, Japanese, English and German, entering as a guest at Hanyang University to study Physics. At age 16 he completed his Ph.D. in Physics, to later work for NASA. Its amazing 210 point IQ It is one of the highest ever reported.

Other well-known names in the world of strategy and mathematics

In this top ten of brilliant minds we also find the mythical Russian chess player Gary Kasparov, with a 190 IQ, who inaugurated his mandate as chess king at age 22, defeating another magnificent: Anatoly Karpov. Paul allen, one of the founders of Microsoft, also appears in the list with a IQ of 170while the famous English mathematician Andrew Wiles, which demonstrated the solution by Ferma's theoremt, considered by many mathematicians as the most complex problem in mathematics, reports 170 IQ points.

An actor in the top 10 of the smartest

Another curious name on the list is that of the actor James woods, winner of three awards Emmy, who recently starred in the acclaimed series Shark. During his university entrance exams, Woods touched perfection in the global mark, achieving, in addition, a complete score (800 points out of 800 possible) in the skills test verbal Before his foray into Hollywood, Woods studied linear algebra as a student at the prestigious MIT institute. His IQ is 180.

More astrophysicists and researchers

The Korean physicist completes the list Christopher Hirata, who at the age of 16 was already working at NASA in astrophysics tasks and future expeditions to Mars, and who reports an IQ of, attention, 225 points. Terence tao, Australian researcher of Hong Kong descent on representation theory. She was also a child prodigy, and her IQ is 230 points, no less, being probably the highest IQ of a person currently in life.

The chess player Judit Polgár, the only woman on the list

Hungarian chess player closes the list of the smartest Judit Polgár, the only woman on the list, and also the only woman to have managed to appear among the 10 highest-rated chess players in the world rankings, achieving it in 1996. Finally the television scriptwriter Rick rosner, creator of the series CHiPs and developer of television platforms, with a 192 point IQ. He is perhaps the genius with a less orthodox life, as he has worked as a nightclub doorman, actor, streaper ...

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