The American organization Super Scholar has developed a ranking with the ten most intelligent people alive in the world. In it appearsStephen Hawking, the well-known theoretical physicist, with an IQ of 160, 14 awards and 70 years of age (and experience). According to the authors of the list, with the 7 books that he has published to date “he hasmade us simple mortals understand the universe“.
Another of those chosen for this peculiar “top ten” is theformer child prodigy Kim Ung-Yong, who with an intelligence quotient (IQ) of 210 appears in the Guinness Book of Records and who at two years of age already spoke four languages; Besides, he started studying at NASA when he had just turned eight.
Also very popular are other characters of the classification such asGarry Kasparov, he with 190 IQ and winner of the world chess title at the age of 22; theBritish mathematician Andrew Wiles,which proved Fermat’s last theorem, considered “the most difficult in the world”; and of coursePaul Allen, co-founder of Microsoft, who has known how to use his intelligence (his IQ is 170) to make money and is also on the list of the 48 richest people in the world.
The actor completes the listJames Woods(CI, 180), who before entering Hollywood studied Linear Algebra and was a student at the prestigious MIT institute; the physicist Cristopher Hirata (CI, 225), who at the age of 14 worked at Caltech; the researcher Terrence Tao (CI, 230), with more than 200 published articles; the child prodigy of chess Judit Polgar (CI, 170); and television screenwriter Rick Rosner (CI, 192).
