IQ Gold Book: Top 2,000 Geniuses and Minds Ranked

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IQ Gold Book: Top 2,000 Geniuses and Minds Ranked

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All the best, Libb.
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Re: IQ Gold Book: Top 2,000 Geniuses and Minds Ranked

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New main page here:
https://hmolpedia.com/page/IQ_Gold_Book

863 slots to fill, if anyone has candidate suggestions?
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Re: IQ Gold Book: Top 2,000 Geniuses and Minds Ranked

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Ronald Fisher
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ronald_Fisher

Irving Langmuir
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Irving_Langmuir

Hannes Alfvén
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hannes_Alfv%C3%A9n

George Edward David
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_E._Davis

Gregorio Ricci-Curbastro
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gregorio_Ricci-Curbastro

Per-Olov Löwdin
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Per-Olov_L%C3%B6wdin

Jean Perrin
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jean_Baptiste_Perrin

Georges Lemaître
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Georges_Lema%C3%AEtre

Leonard Susskind
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leonard_Susskind

Gerard Kuiper
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gerard_Kuiper

Otto Hahn
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Otto_Hahn

Murray Gell-Mann
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Murray_Gell-Mann

Leon Lederman
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leon_M._Lederman

Freeman Dyson
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Freeman_Dyson

Michael Waterman
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_Waterman

Stephen Timoshenko
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stephen_Timoshenko

William Whewell
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Whewell

Philip M. Morse
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Philip_M._Morse

Otto Schmitt
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Otto_Schmitt

Angelo Secchi
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Angelo_Secchi

Hannes Alfvén
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hannes_Alfv%C3%A9n

Pierre Bouguer
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pierre_Bouguer

Joseph von Fraunhofer
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joseph_von_Fraunhofer

Norman Lockyer
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Norman_Lockyer

Alex Dalgarno
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alexander_Dalgarno

George Cayley
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Cayley

Carl Alexander Neuberg
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carl_Neuberg

Élie Metchnikoff
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/%C3%89lie_Metchnikoff

Santiago Ramón y Cajal
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Santiago_ ... 3n_y_Cajal
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Thanks. I'll think on those.

Note, Cajal is already here:
https://hmolpedia.com/page/Top_2000_candidates

Also, to clarify, the IQ Gold Book, will just be a ranking of the top 2,000 “historical names”, the same as this list:
https://hmolpedia.com/page/Top_2000_geniuses_and_minds

Hence, if you want to suggest existive (current) candidates, e.g. Susskind or Gell-Mann, just post those in this forum section:
viewforum.php?f=8
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Re: IQ Gold Book: Top 2,000 Geniuses and Minds Ranked

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Sushruta
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sushruta

Chrysippus
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chrysippus

Madhava of Sangamagrama
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Madhava_of_Sangamagrama

Archytas
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Archytas

Zhuge Liang
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zhuge_Liang

Hemachandra
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hemachandra

John Jonston
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Jonston

François d'Aguilon
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fran%C3%A7ois_d%27Aguilon

Johann Christian Polycarp Erxleben
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Johann_Ch ... p_Erxleben

Daniel Georg Morhof
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daniel_Georg_Morhof

Franz von Gruithuisen
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Franz_von_Gruithuisen

Henry Oldenburg
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henry_Oldenburg

Alcuin
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alcuin

Gordon Gould
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gordon_Gould

Sigfridus Aronus Forsius
https://fi.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sigfridus_Aronus_Forsius

Olaus Rudbeck
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Olaus_Rudbeck

Cassiodorus
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cassiodorus

Thomas Kuhn
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_Kuhn

William Whewell
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Whewell

Otto Hahn
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Otto_Hahn

Shen Kuo
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shen_Kuo

Willebrord Snellius
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Willebrord_Snellius

Johannes Rydberg
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Johannes_Rydberg

Heinrich Rudolf Hertz
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heinrich_Hertz

Louis de Broglie
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Louis_de_Broglie

Edmund Burke
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edmund_Burke

Pappus of Alexandria
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pappus_of_Alexandria

Su Song
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Su_Song

Theon of Alexandria
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Theon_of_Alexandria

Thomas Harriot
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_Harriot

William Oughtred
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Oughtred

Niccolò Fontana Tartaglia
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Niccol%C3 ... _Tartaglia

John Wallis
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Wallis

Nicolas Steno
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nicolas_Steno
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Re: IQ Gold Book: Top 2,000 Geniuses and Minds Ranked

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Repeats:

Heinrich Hertz (IQ:180|#183)
Louis Broglie (IQ:180|#207)
John Wallis (IQ:175|#275)
Niccolo Tartaglia (IQ:175|#305)
William Whewell (IQ:175|#345)
Edmund Brucke (IQ:170|#477)
Thomas Harriot (IQ:155|#866)
Thomas Kuhn (IQ:#|#)

To avoid this, in the future, simply key term search, via core mononym (e.g. Kuhn), the following two page:
https://hmolpedia.com/page/Top_2000_minds_(full_list)
https://hmolpedia.com/page/Top_2000_candidates

Other notes:
Otto Hahn (Becker 160:69)
Johannes Rydberg (Thims 97:51)

What sort of criterion or methodology or finding procedure do you employ to generate these candidate suggestion lists?
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George Westinghouse
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Westinghouse

Brook Taylor
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brook_Taylor

James Gregory
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Gre ... ematician)

Giordano Riccati
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Giordano_Riccati

George Westinghouse
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Westinghouse

Al-Birjandi
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Al-Birjandi

Giovanni Battista Riccioli
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Giovanni_ ... a_Riccioli

Colin Maclaurin
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Colin_Maclaurin

Ismaël Bullialdus
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Isma%C3%ABl_Bullialdus

John Michell
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Michell

Fausto Veranzio
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fausto_Veranzio

Hermann_of_Reichenau
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hermann_of_Reichenau

Guglielmo Marconi
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guglielmo_Marconi

Maximosz Planudes
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maximus_Planudes

Rabanus Maurus
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rabanus_Maurus

Conrad of Megenberg
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Conrad_of_Megenberg

Daniel Georg Morhof
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daniel_Georg_Morhof

Al-Khalil ibn Ahmad al-Farahidi
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Al-Khalil ... l-Farahidi

Sophie Germain
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sophie_Germain

Raimondo di Sangro
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Raimondo_di_Sangro

Théodore Reinach
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Th%C3%A9odore_Reinach

Varāhamihira
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Var%C4%81hamihira

Jagadish Chandra Bose
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jagadish_Chandra_Bose

George Stephenson
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Stephenson

Nicolaus Otto
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nicolaus_Otto
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Xu Guangqi
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xu_Guangqi

Dimitrie Cantemir
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dimitrie_Cantemir

Eugene Merle Shoemaker
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eugene_Merle_Shoemaker

Nicolas Rashevsky
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nicolas_Rashevsky

Joseph Proust
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joseph_Proust

Francesco Stelluti
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Francesco_Stelluti

Ibn Hazm
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ibn_Hazm

Matrakçı Nasuh
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Matrak%C3%A7%C4%B1_Nasuh

Rudolf Diesel
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rudolf_Diesel

Vladimir Shukhov
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vladimir_Shukhov

Fritz London
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fritz_London

Jean Baptiste Joseph Delambre
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jean_Bapt ... h_Delambre

Thomas Thomson
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_Thomson_(chemist)

Sergei Korolev
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sergei_Korolev

Pierre François Verhulst
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pierre_Fr ... s_Verhulst

Fritz Müller
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fritz_M%C3%BCller

Vito Volterra
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vito_Volterra

Thomas Johann Seebeck
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_Johann_Seebeck

Thomas Bayes
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_Bayes (Supplemental: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_t ... omas_Bayes)

Isambard Kingdom Brunel
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Isambard_Kingdom_Brunel

William Froude
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Froude

Llewellyn Thomas
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Llewellyn_Thomas

Kanada
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kanada_(philosopher)

Walter Charleton
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Walter_Charleton

François Bernier
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fran%C3%A7ois_Bernier

William Herschel
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Herschel

Hipparchus
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hipparchus
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Wacław Sierpiński
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wac%C5%82 ... i%C5%84ski

Viggo Brun
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Viggo_Brun

Jean-Philippe Loys de Cheseaux
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jean-Phil ... e_Cheseaux

Johann Georg von Soldner
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Johann_Georg_von_Soldner

C. V. Raman
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/C._V._Raman

Konstantin Ushinsky
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Konstantin_Ushinsky

Friedrich Hund
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Friedrich_Hund

Germain Henri Hess
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Germain_Henri_Hess

Konstantin Tsiolkovsky
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Konstantin_Tsiolkovsky

Roger Apéry
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roger_Ap%C3%A9ry

Nicola Cabibbo
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nicola_Cabibbo

Alfred Tarski
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alfred_Tarski

Afrikan Spir
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Afrikan_Spir

Vyasa
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vyasa

Emil Leon Post
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emil_Leon_Post

Johann Jakob Balmer
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Johann_Jakob_Balmer

Wilhelm Wien
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wilhelm_Wien

Hermann Weyl
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hermann_Weyl

Josef Stefan
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Josef_Stefan

Paul Erdős
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_Erd%C5%91s (Supplemental: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_t ... Erd%C5%91s)

D. G. Champernowne
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/D._G._Champernowne

Johann Josef Loschmidt
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Johann_Josef_Loschmidt

Stanley Skewes
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stanley_Skewes

Mitchell Feigenbaum
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mitchell_Feigenbaum

Vladimir Markovnikov
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vladimir_Markovnikov

Giuseppe Peano
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Giuseppe_Peano

George R. Price
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_R._Price

John Stewart Bell
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Stewart_Bell

Augustus De Morgan
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Augustus_De_Morgan

Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Subrahman ... ndrasekhar

Meghnad Saha

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Meghnad_Saha

Ludolph van Ceulen
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ludolph_van_Ceulen

Ivan M. Niven
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ivan_M._Niven

Walther Nernst
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Walther_Nernst
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Lorenzo Mascheroni
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lorenzo_Mascheroni

Peter Debye
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter_Debye

Jean Léonard Marie Poiseuille
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jean_L%C3 ... Poiseuille

Peter Borwein
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter_Borwein

Guillaume de l'Hôpital
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guillaume ... C3%B4pital

Ronald Graham
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ronald_Graham

Aleksandr Stoletov
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aleksandr_Stoletov

René Antoine Ferchault de Réaumur
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ren%C3%A9 ... C3%A9aumur

Michael Kasha
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_Kasha

Anatoly Vlasov
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anatoly_Vlasov

John Hopkinson
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Hopkinson

James Jurin
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Jurin

Owen Willans Richardson
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Owen_Willans_Richardson

Aleksandr Khinchin
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aleksandr_Khinchin

Henry Darcy
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henry_Darcy

Otto Sackur
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Otto_Sackur

Hugo Tetrode
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hugo_Tetrode

John Kerr
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Kerr_(physicist)

Douglas Hartree
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Douglas_Hartree

Edmund Landau
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edmund_Landau

D. R. Kaprekar
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/D._R._Kaprekar

George Kingsley Zipf
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Kingsley_Zipf

C. H. D. Buys Ballot
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/C._H._D._Buys_Ballot

Heinrich Mache
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heinrich_Mache

Michel Rolle
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michel_Rolle

Johan Gadolin
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Johan_Gadolin

Karl Guthe Jansky
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Karl_Guthe_Jansky
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