| Rank | Name | IQ | Born | Known For |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 1st | Leopold and Loeb 🇺🇸 | 200 | 1905 | Being murderer obsessed with committing the “perfect crime.” Their murder of a 14 years old was the… |
| 2 2nd | Enrico Fermi 🇮🇹 | 190 | 1901 | Demonstrating first self-sustaining nuclear chain reaction Fermi–Dirac statistics Fermi's golden ru… |
| 3 3rd | Linus Pauling 🇺🇸 | 190 | 1901 | Alpha sheet <br> Ancestral sequence reconstruction <br> Backbonding <br> Beta sheet <br> Bond order |
| 4 | Paul Dirac | 190 | 1902 | Sharing the 1933 Nobel Prize in Physics with Erwin Schrödinger "for the discovery of new productive… |
| 5 | John von Neumann 🇭🇺 | 190 | 1903 | Abelian von Neumann algebra Affiliated operator Amenable group Arithmetic logic unit Artificial visc… |
| 6 | Ettore Majorana 🇮🇹 | 183 | 1906 | The Italian theoretical physicist was an expert in electrically neutral subatomic particles created… |
| 7 | Werner Heisenberg 🇩🇪 | 180 | 1901 | The creation of quantum mechanics |
| 8 | John Bardeen 🇺🇸 | 180 | 1908 | Transistor BCS theory Superconductivity |
| 9 | Wolfgang Pauli 🇦🇹 | 175 | 1900 | Pauli exclusion principle |
| 10 | Salvador Dalí 🇪🇸 | 175 | 1904 | Painting, drawing, photography, sculpture, writing, film, jewelry |
| 11 | Howard Robard Hughes 🇺🇸 | 170 | 1905 | Hughes Aircraft Company |
| 12 | Kurt Gödel 🇨🇿 | 170 | 1906 | Gödel numbering |
| 13 | Karl Popper 🇦🇺 | 165 | 1902 | |
| 14 | Erich Fromm 🇩🇪 | 160 | 1900 | Man for Himself: An Inquiry into the Psychology of Ethics and Escape from Freedom |
| 15 | Ayn Rand 🇷🇺 | 160 | 1905 | The Fountainhead, Atlas Shrugged |
The atomic age dawned as Einstein published his four revolutionary 1905 papers — special relativity, the photoelectric effect, Brownian motion, and mass-energy equivalence — in a single annus mirabilis. The Wright Brothers achieved powered flight just two years earlier, Picasso was reinventing painting with Cubism, and Freud's Interpretation of Dreams had just appeared. The world stood at the threshold of a century that would be defined by physics, technology, and mass destruction.
Leopold and Loeb is ranked #1 among geniuses born in the 1900s with an estimated IQ of 200, known for Being murderer obsessed with committing the “perfect crime.” Their murder of a 14 years old was the inspiration for Alfr….
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The average estimated IQ of documented geniuses born in the 1900s is 172, with the highest recorded being 200.
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