Famous geniuses Albert Einstein and Isaac Newton, of course, never passed an IQ test, but it is believed that this indicator was equal to 160 and 190. But there was a man in history whose intellectual coefficient was estimated at 250 to 300. His name was William James Sidis. 

He was born on April 1, 1898, in New York in a family of emigrants from the Ukrainian city of Berdychiv. The boy was named after his godfather William James, an American philosopher who was friends with his father Boris Sidis, a prominent psychotherapist.

From an early age, parents strive to raise their sons to be genius. At the age of 2, William was reading The New York Times newspaper, and at the age of 8, he knew 8 languages ​​and even invented his own and called it Vendergood. At the age of 9, William made his first attempt to enter Harvard, but due to his young age, the boy was refused, but in 2 years he became the youngest student at this university.

All his life, William James Sidis was closed, he often quit his job as soon as his genius manifested itself, and he hid from journalists. At a fairly young age, he decided to give up sex and admitted that he was not interested in women. William looked like a real weirdo, wore country clothes, was interested in strange things, and even wrote a study on an alternative history of America.

Even though his father raised his son as a genius and wanted to make him a star, William hated him and did not even come to his funeral.

In 1919, he was imprisoned for protesting against the First World War, but Vilma's parents arranged for him to spend 2 years at home in a sanatorium instead of in prison. 

William lived his life alone and died at the age of 46 from a cerebral hemorrhage. Thus ended the life of a man who could change the world, but did not love his genius.