The most intelligent people on the planet. Who is first

To be considered a genius, you must have an IQ that exceeds 140.
Approximately 24% of the world's successful people have this coefficient.

Journalists at Business Insider have made a top 19 of the world's smartest people on the planet. Among them are Sharon Stone, actor James Woods, co-founder Paul Allen and politician Benjamin Netanyahu.
"Measuring IQ is an inaccurate science, so the following list is based on rumors that have arisen about the personalities mentioned below," the journalists said.

● William James Sidis had an IQ of 275, which is why he is considered the smartest man ever to have lived. No one has so far been able to match this score. At the age of 8, William James Sidis demonstrated his talent for future mathematician, developing a new 12-figure logarithm, one year later he held a lecture at the Harvard University.

● Terrence Tao, with an IQ of 230, is 35 years old. Little by little, the Chinese proved he can excel in almost any field, but mathematics has remained his great passion. Tao is a mathematics professor at the University of California, Los Angeles.

● Christopher Hirata, 29, has an IQ of 225. She is currently working at NASA. At age 18 he took his doctorate in astrophysics. Among other jobs, Hirata also works as a teacher assistant.

● The 49-year-old Kim Ung-Yong has an IQ of 210. The Korean began to speak fluently for six months, and when he was three years old he gave the university. Kim was a visiting student at Hanyang University of Physics, where he attended classes from the age of 4 to 7 years. In 1970, at the age of eight, he was invited to the United States at NASA, where he completed his university studies. In 1974, during his university studies, he began his research at NASA and continued his activity until 1978 when he returned to South Korea. Here he decided to go to physics in civil engineering and eventually received a doctorate in this field. He has published about 90 works on hydraulic systems in various scientific journals. Since 2007, he is a faculty assistant at Chungbuk National University.

● Christopher Michael Langan, 59, has an IQ of 195. He started talking at the age of six months, and is said to have been reading when he was 3 years old. Christopher Michael Langan tells himself that he has lived a double life for years: working in the laboratory, and at night doing mental calculations, even when he was asleep. He gave up studying at the University of Montana because he realized that the teachers there did not have anything to teach, because he already knew everything.

● Philip Emeagwali, aged 56, has an IQ of 190. He was born in Akure, Nigeria, is a geologist, computer programmer and engineer. He was one of two 1989 winners of the Gordon Bell Award, an IEEE Award, for his merits in using a supercomputer to help analyze oilfields.

● Garry Kasparov, aged 47, has an IQ of 190. In 2003, Garry Kasparov played chess with a computer counterparty. The result? Kasparov made a draw on the computer, though the latter could calculate three million moves per second. Besides being a chess master, Kasparov is a writer and political activist.

● Marilyn vos Savant, aged 64, has an IQ of 186. As a writer, she was crowned the woman with the highest IQ for five consecutive years. Marilyn vos Savant is a chronicle of American magazines, author, lecturer, and playwright. She became more famous in 1990 by making her record in the Book of Records as the woman with the highest score "IQ". Since 1986 she has written articles in "Ask Marilyn," a Sunday column in Parade magazine, in which she solves puzzles and answers queries in the variety fields brought by magazine readers.

● James Woods has an IQ of 180. The 64-year-old actor was an eminent student who managed to score 800 on oral intelligence tests and 779 on written tests for SAT. While in the general school, Woods enrolled in college, and the grade obtained at the exam gave him not only the acceptance of enrollment, but also a merit scholarship.

● John H. Sununu has an IQ of 180. In his 72 years of age and Cuban origin, Sununu is a member of the "Mega Society," whose members have an IQ well above average. Sununu became famous for his abuses in government travel during George HW's boss. Bush, between 1989-1991. He paid the US government only $ 892 from $ 615,000, the value of his travels for military purposes. Sununu was also mentioned in a Family Guy episode: "Picture is Worth a 1,000 Bucks."

● Bobby Fischer - IQ of 180. The American died in 2008 at the age of 64. He is said to have an elephant memory and was considered a true genius. At the age of 15, he became the youngest chess master in the world. He won the American championships in 1963-1964. In 1972, he won the title of World Champion, defeating Boris Spassky. At that time it was considered a victory of the Americans against the Russians in the context of the Cold War. Bobby Fischer died in 2008 because of renal failure.

● Benjamin Netanyahu has an IQ of 180. He was ranked 11th in the Top 50 Most Valuable Worlds in 2010. In 1973, Netanyahu left MIT to fight in the Yom Kippur war. Benjamin, aged 62, is of Israeli origin and is a politician.

● Jacob Barnett, at the age of 12, has an IQ of 170. American Jacob began to talk late, almost 3 years old, he could tell the alphabet from head to tail and vice versa. After he was 3 years old, he was taken by his parents to a Planetarium, where he answered all the questions about Mars's gravitational attraction to his moons. Jacob can also solve extremely complex mathematical theories, and meditates to college students at almost all subjects.

● Sir Andrew Wiles has an IQ of 170. The 58-year-old Briton entered the Book of Records after demonstrating a 358-year-old theorum called "Fermat's Great Theorem" - a famous theorem about number theory . It was the only one who managed to make a complete demonstration of Pierre de Fermat's statement in 1637. "Fermat's Great Theorem" is considered the world's worst mathematics problem.

● Judit Polgar - IQ 170. At the age of 35, the Hungarian is considered the best chess player in the world, being the only woman to defeat Bobby Fischer. It has an IQ of 170 and has become a master of this game since the age of 15. Polgar was trained by her father, who said that "genius is learned, is not innate." And his sisters are international champions in this sport of mind.

● Robert Byrne, 83, has an IQ of 170. He has demonstrated his mastery of chess, being one of the great masters of this sport, alongside Bobby Fisher and John W. Collins. He was a chess editor for the New York Times from 1972 to 2006 when he retired at the age of 78.

● Stephen W. Hawking has an IQ of 160. Stephen, 68, is the one who said in an interview with MSNBC that: "Those who boast about their IQ are losers" . Although he has a high IQ, Hawking learned to read at the age of eight when he joined Oxford. He was diagnosed with ALS or Lou Gehrig's disease at the age of 21 years. At that time, the doctors informed him that he did not have much to live, so he married and made three children. He is considered one of the most brilliant minds of the planet and continues today to work as a physicist, theoretician of the origin of the universe, as well as a cosmologist. He is a professor at the mathematics department at Cambridge.

● Paul Allen - IQ 160. This is Microsoft's co-founder and gained the intelligence test 10 points more than his old business partner, Bill Gates. Paul Allen, 58, is one of the richest people in the world with a fortune estimated at $ 13.5 billion in 2010. Allen resigned from Microsoft in November 2000, but still holds more than 100 millions of company shares.

● Sharon Stone has an IQ of 154. The 53-year-old actress and model, Sharon Stone, earned a scholarship at Edinboro University in Pennsylvania at age 15, where she studied creative literature and arts. At that time, Sharon called himself "an ugly nerd".