Who is Currently the Smartest Person in the World?

2. Christopher Hirata

IQ Level: 225

Christopher Hirata is the person who can righteously say that his education, at least in the early years of it was a total waste. By the age of three, the young Hirata would make up his own games at the grocery store but unlike other children, his one consisted of calculating the overall bill, tax and discounts and quantizing the products by weight and other measures.

Hirata first became famous when he won an international physics olympiad at the age of 13 where we became the youngest medalist in the history of the competition. One year later, he enrolled in Caltech which did not prevent him from starting to collaborate with NASA scientists at the age of 16 on a project that researched the possible colonization of Mars.

Hirata earned his PhD in astrophysics from Princeton at the age of 22, an age when most of us are still busy figuring out how to work with a washing machine.

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