| Rank | Name | IQ | Born | Known For |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 1st | Erwin Schrödinger 🇦🇹 | 190 | 1887 | Schrödinger's cat |
| 2 2nd | Alfred J. Lotka 🇺🇸 | 185 | 1880 | The Lotka–Volterra equations |
| 3 3rd | Percy Williams Bridgman 🇺🇸 | 185 | 1882 | High-pressure physics <br> Operationalism <br> Operational definition |
| 4 | Pierre Teilhard de Chardin 🇫🇷 | 180 | 1881 | Co-developing the concept of the noosphere. |
| 5 | Niels Bohr 🇩🇰 | 180 | 1885 | Bohr magneton <br> Bohr model <br> Bohr radius <br> Bohr–Einstein debates <br> Bohr–Kramers–Slater t… |
| 6 | Pablo Picasso 🇪🇸 | 175 | 1881 | Painting, drawing, sculpture, printmaking, ceramics, stage design, writing |
| 7 | Marcel Duchamp 🇫🇷 | 175 | 1887 | Nude Descending a Staircase, No. 2 (1912) <br> Fountain (1917) <br> The Bride Stripped Bare By Her B… |
| 8 | R. A. Schwaller de Lubicz 🇫🇷 | 175 | 1887 | Esotericism, alternative Egyptology |
| 9 | Srinivasa Ramanujan 🇮🇳 | 175 | 1887 | Landau–Ramanujan constant, Mock theta functions, Ramanujan conjecture, Ramanujan prime, Ramanujan–So… |
| 10 | Ludwig Wittgenstein 🇦🇹 | 175 | 1889 | Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus |
| 11 | Pitirim Sorokin 🇷🇺 | 175 | 1889 | Leaves of a Russian Diar |
| 12 | Oswald Spengler 🇩🇪 | 170 | 1880 | The Decline of the West |
| 13 | John Maynard Keynes | 170 | 1883 | Changing the theory and practice of macroeconomics and the economic policies of governments |
| 14 | Edwin Hubble 🇺🇸 | 170 | 1889 | Hubble sequence <br> Hubble's law |
| 15 | Igor Stravinsky 🇷🇺 | 165 | 1882 | The Firebird (1910), Petrushka (1911), and The Rite of Spring (1913) |
The height of the Gilded Age saw electricity, steel, and the modern corporation transform daily life and the economy at a pace that left contemporaries dizzy. Edison's light bulb was electrifying cities, Pasteur and Koch were revolutionizing medicine with germ theory, and the skyscraper was beginning to reshape urban skylines. The gap between rich and poor had never been wider, and progressive movements were beginning to push back.
Erwin Schrödinger is ranked #1 among geniuses born in the 1880s with an estimated IQ of 190, known for Schrödinger's cat.
Our database includes 31 notable geniuses born between 1880–1889, spanning fields from science and mathematics to philosophy, literature, and the arts.
The average estimated IQ of documented geniuses born in the 1880s is 171, with the highest recorded being 190.
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