Only a narrow-minded person can believe that the average man is a priori smarter than any woman. A lot of smart, ambitious and successful ladies are known in both Russian and foreign history. Is there women with an exceptionally high level of intelligence, whom the late Stephen Hawking might have envied (his IQ was estimated at 160 points).
Introducing the top 10 smartest women ever born.
10. Olivia Manning (IQ 162)
At the age of 12, when many children enjoy playing with friends and hate doing homework, Olivia Manning from Liverpool took the Mensa IQ Supervised and scored over 160 points. Even celebrities such as Albert Einstein and Stephen Hawking scored 160 points each on the IQ test. Thanks to her ingenious mind, Olivia is one of the smartest girls in the world.
9. Fabiola Mann (IQ 162)
This 21-year-old young woman, who was born in Goa and now resides in England, scored 162 points on the Mensa IQ Supervised. Little is known about Mann's life, other than that she loves to play chess, plays the guitar, did karate and has always wanted to study and work in the medical field. Like the rest of the participants in our collection, Fabiola is among the 1% of the smartest people in the world.
8. Judit Polgar (IQ 170)
She is considered the best chess player in the world. When Judit was just 15 years old, she earned the title of Grandmaster, surpassing Robert Fischer's achievement by a month. Also, her name is included in the list of the best players according to the FIDE version.
Judit has played against many famous chess masters, including Viswanathan Anand, Alexei Shirov and Garry Kasparov. She is the only female chess player to hold the unofficial, but very prestigious, super-grandmaster title.
7. Ruth Lawrence (IQ 175)
British female mathematician and professor of mathematics working in knot theory and algebraic topology. In her youth, she was known as a child prodigy, and later became one of the smartest women in the world. At the age of 10, Ruth easily passed the entrance exams at Oxford and became the youngest woman in modern history to successfully graduate from Oxford.
6. Grace Hopper (IQ 175)
Renowned American scientist and Commodore of the US Navy. It was she who developed the first working compiler for a computer programming language and contributed to the development of the concept of machine-independent programming languages.
When Grace was 34 years old, she was enlisted in the US Navy reserve, and then worked with the first programmable computer Mark I under the direction of Howard Aiken and participated in the development of Mark II and UNIVAC I.
During her academic career, Hopper received 40 honorary degrees from many universities around the world. She became the first woman to receive a Distinguished Membership of the British Computer Society.
Thanks to the tremendous achievements in science and high military rank, this woman received the nickname "Amazing Grace." She died in 1992 at the age of 85.
5.Anne-Louise Germaine de Stael (IQ 180-185)
The Frenchwoman, also known as Madame de Stael, was born in Paris in 1766 in the family of the Minister of Finance, Jacques Necker.In adulthood, she became widely known as a writer, literary theorist and political activist. Her book On Germany influenced the worldview of many French people in the 19th century.
Germaine was the main opponent and critic of Napoleon, who expelled her from the country and forbade her to return. In 1812, Madame de Stael visited Russia, where she was received with great warmth. The well-known artist V. Borovikovsky painted a portrait of Germaine, and the poet K. Batyushkov expressed his opinion about the French writer as follows: "... As bad as a devil and clever as an angel."
Now it is impossible to know exactly how smart Germaine de Stael was. Researchers on the personality of the famous writer suggest that her IQ is between 180 and 185.
4. Marie Curie (IQ 185)
If you arrange a survey on the topic "who is the smartest woman in the world?" then most educated people will surely call Marie Curie. This woman is one of the most iconic and influential figures in history. She is known for her research in the field of radioactivity. Maria, along with her husband Pierre Curie, discovered the elements polonium and radium.
She received two Nobel Prizes - one in physics in 1903 and the other in chemistry in 1911.
Marie Curie is still the most popular female scientist in the world.
3. Hypatia of Alexandria (IQ 190)
The daughter of the mathematician Theon of Alexandria was a prominent philosopher, astronomer and mathematician in Egypt and then the Eastern Roman Empire. It is believed that Hypatia invented many scientific instruments such as the astrolabe and hydrometer. She was a commentator, co-author and author of various treatises, and it is to this woman that science owes the appearance of such concepts as ellipse, hyperbola and parabola. Contemporaries compared her to Athena in wit, to Aphrodite in beauty and to a Hero in posture.
Hypatia of Alexandria is known as one of the greatest minds of her time. Researchers estimate her IQ at 190.
2. Marilyn vos Savant (IQ 190)
The name of this American writer and journalist is listed in the Guinness Book of Records as the woman with the highest IQ.
She has a special Ask Marilyn section in the popular magazine Parade, where she answers questions that matter to readers and solves various complex riddles (such as the Monty Hall paradox).
1. Edith Stern (IQ 200)
The rating of the most brilliant women on Earth is headed by the “ideal human being”, as her father Aaron Stern once called the newborn girl. At the age of 12, Edith entered college at the University of Michigan, and at 15 she taught trigonometry students.
Edith has over 128 US patents in her name. According to various tests, her IQ is about 200 points. However, this woman's childhood cannot be called joyful. For the development of her daughter's intellect, her father forbade her to play with her peers and engage in simple children's pranks. All her leisure time was filled with reading books and discussing what she had read with her parent. When Edith was 7 years old, her brother David was born. He was brought up as an ordinary child and when asked whether he wants to become a child prodigy, like a sister, the boy confidently answered "no."
Edith must now be 66 years old. Nothing is known about her current life.