The Smartest Person Ever Enrolled At Harvard Was Actually An 11-Year-Old Boy

William Sidis reportedly had an IQ as high as 300 – so why isn’t he a household name?

.....By this time, it seems, Sidis had distanced himself from the parents who had raised him in such a strange fashion. But although he craved anonymity, he could not forego academic life completely. In 1925 he published The Animate and the Inanimate – a theory about the cosmos and how biological life came to exist.