The Greatest Physicists of All Time — Ranked by IQ

Einstein, Newton, Hawking, Feynman, Bohr — physics ranked by raw intellectual horsepower.

1. William James Sidis

   1898–1944 · US
   250
2. Chris Hirata

   1982–present · US
   —
3. Terence Chi-Shen Tao

   1975–present · AU
   —
4. Kim Ung-yong

   1962–present · KR
   —
5. Aristotle

   0384–? · GR
   —
6. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

   1749–1832 · DE
   200
7. Leonardo Da Vinci

   1452–1519 · IT
   200
8. Leopold and Loeb

   1905–1971 · US
   200
9. Sho Yano

   1990–present · US
   —
10. Evangelos Katsioulis

    1976–present · GR
    —
11. Empedocles

    0490–? · GR
    —
12. Gilbert N. Lewis

    1875–1946 · US
    195
13. Henry Adams

    1838–1918 · US
    195
14. Hermann von Helmholtz

    1821–1894 · DE
    195
15. Ludwig Boltzmann

    1844–1906 · AT
    195
16. Nikola Tesla

    1856–1943 · HR
    195
17. Pierre-Simon Laplace

    1749–1827 · FR
    195
18. Richard G. Rosner

    1960–present · US
    —
19. Archimedes

    0287–? · GR
    —
20. Athanasius Kircher

    1602–1680 · DE
    190
21. Baron d'Holbach

    1723–1789 · DE
    190
22. Carl Friedrich Gauss

    1777–1855 · DE
    190
23. Christiaan Huygens

    1629–1695 · NL
    190
24. Enrico Fermi

    1901–1954 · IT
    190
25. Erwin Schrödinger

    1887–1961 · AT
    190
26. Francis Bacon

    1561–1626 · ENG
    190
27. Voltaire

    1694–1778 · FR
    190
28. Friedrich Nietzsche

    1844–1900 · DE
    190
29. Giordano Bruno

    1548–1600 · IT
    190
30. Isaac Newton

    1643–1727 · ENG
    190
31. John von Neumann

    1903–1957 · HU
    190
32. Joseph-Louis Lagrange

    1736–1813 · IT
    190
33. Henri Poincaré

    1854–1912 · FR
    190
34. Leonhard Euler

    1707–1783 · CH
    190
35. Linus Pauling

    1901–1994 · US
    190
36. Max Planck

    1858–1947 · DE
    190
37. Nicolas Léonard Sadi Carnot

    1796–1832 · FR
    190
38. Paul Dirac

    1902–1984 · ENG
    190
39. Pierre Gassendi

    1592–1655 · FR
    190
40. Vilfredo Pareto

    1848–1923 · IT
    190
41. Wilhelm Ostwald

    1853–1932 · LV
    190
42. William Shakespeare

    1564–1616 · GB
    190
43. Marilyn vos Savant

    1946–present · US
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44. Alan Turing

    1912–1954 · ENG
    185
45. Alfred J. Lotka

    1880–1949 · US
    185
46. Arthur Schopenhauer

    1788–1860 · DE
    185
47. Auguste Comte

    1798–1857 · FR
    185
48. Blaise Pascal

    1623–1662 · FR
    185
49. Ctesibius

    0285–0222 · EG
    185
50. Democritus

    0460–? · GR
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Scores draw from cited estimates in published biographies and psychometric literature. Historical IQ figures are reconstructions, not test results.