Growing up, you may have been told it's not cool to be a "nerd." Well, we've got 10 people who would beg to differ. These 10 smartest people of all time are not only incredibly accomplished, but they're also insanely smart. Check out the full list below.
A child prodigy who is now considered to be the greatest German mathematician of all time, Carl Gauss had an estimated IQ between 250 and 300. Gauss was particularly adept in the study of electromagnetism.English physicist Thomas Young had an IQ between 185 and 200. He studied physiology, light, vision and language, and he was also one of the main people to help decipher the Rosetta Stone.Good old Gottfried Leibniz may have a questionable taste in hairstyle, but he was a celebrated German philosopher and logician - not to mention he invented differential and integral calculus. Who has time …show more content…
This cool guy wrote a book called De Revolutionibus Orbium Coelestium, which delves heavily into astronomy. In fact, the book was banned by the Church for nearly three centuries after he died.Boasting an IQ between 190 and 205, Rudolf Clausius was a German physicist and mathematician who formulated the second law of thermodynamics, which states that in any cyclic process, entropy will either increase or stay the same. Clausius also coined the term "entropy," which is a measure of the universe's disorder.James Maxwell would fit right in in Brooklyn. The Scottish mathematical physicist formulated the classical theory of electromagnetic radiation and boasts an IQ between 190 and 205. He is also associated with laying the foundations for quantum theory and was well-respected by
A child prodigy who is now considered to be the greatest German mathematician of all time, Carl Gauss had an estimated IQ between 250 and 300. Gauss was particularly adept in the study of electromagnetism.English physicist Thomas Young had an IQ between 185 and 200. He studied physiology, light, vision and language, and he was also one of the main people to help decipher the Rosetta Stone.Good old Gottfried Leibniz may have a questionable taste in hairstyle, but he was a celebrated German philosopher and logician - not to mention he invented differential and integral calculus. Who has time …show more content…
This cool guy wrote a book called De Revolutionibus Orbium Coelestium, which delves heavily into astronomy. In fact, the book was banned by the Church for nearly three centuries after he died.Boasting an IQ between 190 and 205, Rudolf Clausius was a German physicist and mathematician who formulated the second law of thermodynamics, which states that in any cyclic process, entropy will either increase or stay the same. Clausius also coined the term "entropy," which is a measure of the universe's disorder.James Maxwell would fit right in in Brooklyn. The Scottish mathematical physicist formulated the classical theory of electromagnetic radiation and boasts an IQ between 190 and 205. He is also associated with laying the foundations for quantum theory and was well-respected by