Aage Niels Bohr
A Danish nuclear physicist who shared the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1975 with Ben Mottelson and James Rainwater
Abdus Salam
Pakistani theoretical physicist who won the 1979 Nobel Prize in Physics
Alan Guth
An American theoretical physicist and cosmologist.
Alan Turing
IQ 185An English mathematician, computer scientist, logician, cryptanalyst, philosopher, and theoretical biologist.
Alan Watts
IQ 145A British writer and speaker known for interpreting and popularizing Buddhism, Taoism, and Hinduism for a Western audien
Albert Camus
IQ 155A French writer, philosopher and journalist.
Albert Einstein
IQ 160Synonym for genius and one of humanity greatest scientific minds
Alexander Fleming
A Scottish biologist, pharmacologist and botanist.
Alfred Wegener
IQ 160A German polar researcher, geophysicist and meteorologist.
Alfred J. Lotka
IQ 185A US mathematician, physical chemist, and statistician, famous for his work in population dynamics and energetics.
Andrew Wiles
Proving Fermat's Last Theorem
Arthur Compton
An American physicist who won the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1927 for his 1923 discovery of the Compton effect.
Ayn Rand
IQ 160Russian-American writer and philosopher
Barbara McClintock
An American scientist and cytogeneticist.
Bertrand Russell
IQ 180A British polymath, philosopher, logician, mathematician, historian, writer, social critic, political activist, and Nobe
Bill Gates
IQ 160An American business magnate, software developer, and philanthropist. The co-founder of Microsoft Corporation.
Bobby Fischer
An American chess grandmaster and the eleventh World Chess Champion.
Burrhus Frederic Skinner
An American psychologist, behaviorist, author, inventor, and social philosopher.
Carl David Anderson
An American physicist best known for his discovery of the positron in 1932.
Carl Woese
Discovery of Archaea
Carl Sagan
IQ 130American astrophysicist, cosmologist, author, and science educator
Carl Jung
IQ 165A Swiss psychiatrist and psychoanalyst who founded analytical psychology.
Cecilia Payne-Gaposchkin
A British-born American astronomer and astrophysicist who proposed in her 1925 doctoral thesis that stars were composed
C. V. Raman
An Indian physicist known mainly for his work in the field of light scattering.
Charles Glover Barkla
A British physicist, and the winner of the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1917
Charles H. Townes
IQ 165An American physicist who worked on the theory and application of the maser and laser devices.
Charlie Spencer Chaplin
IQ 140The Great Dictator (1940)
Modern Times (1936)
City Lights (1931)
The Kid (1921)
Yang Chen-Ning
A Chinese theoretical physicist who made significant contributions to statistical mechanics, integrable systems, gauge t
Christopher Langan
IQ 174An American autodidact described as "the smartest man in America"
Christopher Hitchens
IQ 170An English intellectual, polemicist, and socio-political critic, who expressed himself as an author, orator, essayist an
Claude Shannon
IQ 180An American mathematician, electrical engineer, and cryptographer known as "the father of information theory".
Claudio Arrau
A Chilean pianist known for his interpretations of a vast repertoire spanning the baroque to 20th-century composers, esp
Clive Staples Lewis
IQ 150A British writer and lay theologian best known for The Screwtape Letters, The Chronicles of Narnia, and The Space Trilog
Craig Venter
An American biotechnologist and businessman known for leading the first draft sequence of the human genome and assemblin
Daniel Barenboim
A pianist and conductor who is a citizen of Argentina, Israel, Palestine, and Spain who gave his first formal concert in
Donald Knuth
An American computer scientist who is called the "father of the analysis of algorithms" and is known for the work The Ar
Acharya S
IQ 160An American genius writer supporting the theory that Jesus never existed as a historical person.
Edith Stern
IQ 200An American inventor and mathematician who holds over 100 US patents and was the youngest ever graduate of Florida Atlan
Edward Witten
An American mathematical and theoretical physicist who was awarded a Fields Medal for the proof of the positive energy t
Edwin Hubble
IQ 170A genius American astronomer who played a crucial role in establishing the fields of extragalactic astronomy and observa
Emmy Noether
A genius German mathematician who discovered Noether's theorem. Albert Einstein described her as the most important woma
Enrico Fermi
IQ 190An Italian physicist and the creator of the world's first nuclear reactor, the Chicago Pile-1. He is considered as the a
Erich Wolfgang Korngold
An Austrian-born American composer and conductor who became one of the most important and influential composers in Holly
Erich Fromm
IQ 160A German social psychologist, psychoanalyst, sociologist, humanistic philosopher, and democratic socialist. He was one o
Ernest Lawrence
A pioneering American nuclear scientist and winner of the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1939 for his invention of the cyclot
Ernest Rutherford
A genius New Zealand physicist who came to be known as the father of nuclear physics. He is considered to be the greates
Ernest Walton
An Anglo-Irish physicist and Nobel laureate who became the first person in history to split the atom.
Ernest Hemingway
IQ 170An American novelist, short-story writer, journalist, and sportsman best known for his novels For Whom the Bell Tolls, A
Erwin Chargaff
An Austro-Hungarian-born American biochemist who discovered two rules that helped lead to the discovery of the double he
Erwin Schrödinger
IQ 190A Nobel Prize-winning Austrian-Irish physicist best known for his "Schrödinger's cat" thought experiment.
Ettore Majorana
IQ 183An Italian theoretical physicist who worked on neutrino masses. The Majorana equation and Majorana fermions are named af
Frances Oldham Kelsey
A Canadian-born American pharmacologist and physician. Kelsey's career intersected with the passage of laws strengthenin
Francis Crick
IQ 173A British molecular biologist, biophysicist, and neuroscientist best known for the discoveries concerning the molecular
F. Scott Fitzgerald
IQ 145Is an American novelist and screenwriter known across the world for his novel The Great Gatsby.
Frank Drake
IQ 140An American astronomer and astrophysicist who was part of Project Ozma.
Franklin D. Roosevelt
IQ 151An American politician who served as the 32nd president of the United States from 1933 until his death in 1945.
Franz Kafka
A genius Czech novelist known for the surreal subject of his novel "Metamorphosis".
Fred Hoyle
An English astronomer who formulated the theory of stellar nucleosynthesis
Frederick Sanger
IQ 175A genius British biochemist who discovered the structure of insulin and one two Nobel Prizes in Chemistry.
Frederick Rossini
IQ 180An American thermodynamicist noted for his work in chemical thermodynamics.
Fritz Albert Lipmann
A German-American biochemist and a co-discoverer in 1945 of coenzyme A.
Garry Kasparov
IQ 190A Russian chess grandmaster, former World Chess Champion, writer, and political activist and commentator
Eugene Merle Shoemaker
An American geologist whose ashes were carried to the Moon with the Lunar Prospector mission.
George de Hevesy
A Hungarian radiochemist and Nobel Prize in Chemistry laureate for the development of radioactive tracers to study chemi
George Wald
An American scientist who studied pigments in the retina. His findings helped to determine how genetics influence the co
Georges Lemaître
A Belgian Catholic priest, mathematician, astronomer, and professor of physics at the Catholic University of Louvain.
Gian Carlo Menotti
An Italian-American composer, librettist, director, and playwright who is primarily known for his output of 25 operas
Gilbert N. Lewis
IQ 195Covalent bondLewis dot structuresValence bond theoryElectronic theory of acids and basesChemical thermodynamicsFugacityH
Giulio Natta
An Italian chemist and Nobel laureate
Glenn Gould
Canadian composer and pianist who is one of the best known and most celebrated pianists of the 20th century
Glenn T. Seaborg
An American chemist whose involvement in the synthesis, discovery and investigation of ten transuranium elements earned
Grace Hopper
An American computer scientist and United States Navy rear admiral who was one of the first programmers of the Harvard M
Grigori Perelman
Russian mathematician who is known for his contributions to the fields of geometric analysis, Riemannian geometry, and g
Guglielmo Marconi
IQ 165An Italian inventor and electrical engineer, known for his pioneering work on long-distance radio transmission.
György Cziffra
A Hungarian-French virtuoso pianist and composer who was taught by István Thomán, who was a favourite pupil of Franz Lis
Hannah Arendt
IQ 140A German-born American political theorist who was an avid critic of totalitarian regimes, Nazism and Fascism in particul
Harold Urey
An American physical chemist whose pioneering work on isotopes earned him the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1934 for the d
Marcel Duchamp
IQ 175A French-American painter, sculptor, chess player, and writer whose work is associated with Cubism, Dada, and conceptual
Henry Moseley
An English physicist, whose contribution to the science of physics lead to the discovery of the X-Ray spectrum.
Norman Schwarzkopf Jr.
IQ 168A United States Army general who led all coalition forces in the Gulf War.
