Greatest Science Geniuses — Ranked by IQ
120
Science Geniuses
From the laws of motion to the structure of DNA, scientists have unlocked the secrets of our universe.
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Total Science Geniuses
120
Highest IQ
225
Average IQ
174
#1 Genius
Chris
Top 15 Science Geniuses by IQ
Ranked by estimated IQ score, based on historical records and psychometric research.
| # | Name | IQ | Born | Known For |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Chris Hirata | 225 | 1982 | Being the youngest U.S. citizen to receive an International Physics Olympiad gold medal. Starting wo |
| 2 | Aristotle | 200 | 0384 | A genius whose philosophical ideas are still taught, but his contributions to physics retarded progr |
| 3 | Leonardo Da Vinci | 200 | 1452 | Painting, drawing, sculpting, science, engineering, architecture, anatomy |
| 4 | Wilhelm Ostwald | 190 | 1853 | Catalysis, Coining the term 'Mole' and HSL and HSV |
| 5 | Max Planck | 190 | 1858 | On the Second Principles of Mechanical Heat Theory (1879) |
| 6 | Linus Pauling | 190 | 1901 | Alpha sheet Ancestral sequence reconstruction Backbonding Beta sheet Bond order |
| 7 | Paul Dirac | 190 | 1902 | Sharing the 1933 Nobel Prize in Physics with Erwin Schrödinger "for the discovery of new productive |
| 8 | John von Neumann | 190 | 1903 | Abelian von Neumann algebra Affiliated operator Amenable group Arithmetic logic unit Artificial visc |
| 9 | Percy Williams Bridgman | 185 | 1882 | High-pressure physics Operationalism Operational definition |
| 10 | Ettore Majorana | 183 | 1906 | The Italian theoretical physicist was an expert in electrically neutral subatomic particles created |
| 11 | Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz | 182 | 1646 | Discourse on Metaphysics,Théodicée, integral calculus |
| 12 | Thales of Miletus | 180 | 0626 | The first scientist in history, Thales looked for patterns in nature to explain the way the world wo |
| 13 | Galileo Galilei | 180 | 1564 | Analytical dynamics, heliocentrism, kinematics, observational astronomy |
| 14 | Jean Sylvain Bailly | 180 | 1736 | Being a political leader of the early part of the French Revolution |
| 15 | Honoré Gabriel Riqueti, comte de Mirabeau | 180 | 1749 | A leader of the early stages of the French Revolution |
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Alexander von Humboldt
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Mary Somerville
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Karl Marx
The fact that his teachings lead to revolutions in Russia, China, Cuba, Vietnam, and Cambodia.
John William Strutt, 3rd Baron Rayleigh
Discovery of argon
Hendrik Lorentz
Zeeman effect
Joseph John Thomson
Discovery of the electron
Niels Bohr
Bohr magneton
Bohr model
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Louis de Broglie
Wave nature of electrons
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Broglie wavelength
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Werner Heisenberg
The creation of quantum mechanics
John Bardeen
Transistor BCS theory Superconductivity
Antonie van Leeuwenhoek
Being the first acknowledged microbiologist.
Baruch Spinoza
Ethics, epistemology, metaphysics, Hebrew grammar
William Whewell
Coining the words scientist and physicist
Adolphe Quetelet
First to apply the statistical normal distribution to characteristics of human populations
Gustav Kirchhoff
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Andrew Carnegie
Founding and leading the Carnegie Steel Company, the Carnegie Library, Carnegie Institution for Scie
Heike Kamerlingh Onnes
Liquid helium
Onnes-effect
Superconductivity
Virial equation of state
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Superconductivity
Virial equation of state
Walther Nernst
Third Law of Thermodynamics
Robert Andrews Millikan
Oil drop experiment measuring the charge of the electron
Photoelectric effect
Cosmic ray p
Photoelectric effect
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Wolfgang Pauli
Pauli exclusion principle
William Shockley
Point-contact transistor and GJT
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Frederick Sanger
Determining the amino acid sequence of insulin
Sanger sequencing
Sanger Centre
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Muhammad ibn Zakariya al-Razi
The first to write up limited or extensive notes on diseases such as smallpox and chickenpox, a pion
Ben Jonson
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Jean-Paul Marat
French politial theorist, physician, and scientist; did 166 experiments on fire and 214 on electrici
Pierre Victurnien Vergniaud
French lawyer, statesman, and revolutionist.
Constantin François de Chassebœuf, comte de Volney
The Ruins: a Survey of the Revolutions of Empires (1791)
Georges Cuvier
Establishing the fields of stratigraphy and comparative anatomy, and the principle of faunal success
Sir William Hamilton, 9th Baronet
Lectures on Metaphysics and Logic
John Tyndall
Atmosphere, physics education, Tyndall effect, diamagnetism, infrared radiation, Tyndallization
Thomas Henry Huxley
Evolution, science education, agnosticism
Émile Durkheim
Being the architect of modern social science
Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar
Chandrasekhar limit
Chandrasekhar number
Chandrasekhar friction
Chandrasekhar–Kendall
Chandrasekhar number
Chandrasekhar friction
Chandrasekhar–Kendall
Ilya Prigogine
Dissipative structures Brusselator
Jacob Barnett
Becoming a doctorate student at the University of Waterloo in Ontario, Canada at 18 years old.
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