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10 Countries with the Most Geniuses per capita

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I divided the top 500 geniuses in history by country, then divided countries' population by 1,000,000, then divided that by the number of geniuses from that country. These are the results.

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10. Sweden: 0.30 per 1,000,000

Swedish geniuses include Jons Berzelius (IQ 180), one of the founders of modern chemistry and mathematician and professor of mathematics Arne Beurling (IQ 180).

9. Germany: 0.47 per 1,000,000

German geniuses include Carl Gauss (IQ 250-300), a mathematician who contributed significantly to many fields, including number theory, algebra, statistics, analysis, differential geometry, geodesy, geophysics, mechanics, electrostatics, astronomy, matrix theory, and optics, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (IQ 225), a writer and statesman, and Albert Einstein (IQ 205-225), a theoretical physicist who developed the general theory of relativity, one of the two pillars of modern physics.

8. Italy: 0.48 per 1,000,000

Italian geniuses include Leonardo da Vinci (IQ 220), a polymath whose areas of interest included invention, painting, sculpting, architecture, science, music, mathematics, engineering, literature, anatomy, geology, astronomy, botany, writing, history, poetry, and cartography, Paolo Sarpi (IQ 195), a historian, prelate, scientist, canon lawyer, and statesman, and Ettore Majorana (IQ 195), a theoretical physicist who worked on neutrino masses

7. Denmark: 0.52 per 1,000,000

Danish geniuses include Barthold Niebuhr (IQ 185), a statesman, banker, and historian who became a leading historian of Ancient Rome, Hans Christian Ørsted (IQ 180), a physicist and chemist who discovered that electric currents create magnetic fields, and Niels Bohr (IQ 175-185), and physicist who made foundational contributions to understanding atomic structure and quantum theory

6. Austria: 0.58 per 1,000,000

Austrian geniuses include Ludwig Boltzmann (IQ 195), a physicist and philosopher whose greatest achievement was in the development of statistical mechanics, which explains and predicts how the properties of atoms determine the physical properties of matter, Erwin Schrödinger (IQ 190), a physicist who developed a number of fundamental results in the field of quantum theory, and Johann Strauss (IQ 170), a composer of light music, particularly dance music and operettas.

5. Ireland: 0.63 per 1,000,000

Irish geniuses include George Berkeley (IQ 190), a philosopher whose primary achievement was the advancement of a theory he called "immaterialism", George Bernard Shaw
(IQ 180), playwright, critic and polemicist whose influence on Western theatre, culture and politics extended from the 1880s to his death and beyond, and Robert Boyle (IQ 160), a natural philosopher, chemist, physicist and inventor.

4. Switzerland: 0.71 per 1,000,000

Swiss geniuses include Leonhard Euler (IQ 195), a mathematician, physicist, astronomer, logician and engineer who made important and influential discoveries in many branches of mathematics, Albrecht von Haller (IQ 190), an anatomist, physiologist, naturalist and poet, and Jean-Paul Marat (IQ 170), a physician, scientist and political theorist who became best known for his role as a radical journalist and politician during the French Revolution.

3. France: 0.86 per 1,000,000

French geniuses include Henri Poincaré (IQ 195), a mathematician, theoretical physicist, engineer, and a philosopher of science, Emily Chatelet (IQ 190), a female physicist, mathematician and author during the Age of Enlightenment, and Voltaire (IQ 190), a French Enlightenment writer, historian, and philosopher.

2. United Kingdom: 1.12 per 1,000,000

British geniuses include Isaac Newton (IQ 220), a physicist and mathematician who is widely recognised as one of the most influential scientists of all time and a key figure in the scientific revolution, William Shakespere (IQ 210), poet, playwright, and actor, widely regarded as the greatest writer in the English language and the world's pre-eminent dramatist, and James Maxwell (IQ 210), a mathematician and physicist who published physical and mathematical theories of the electromagnetic field.

1. Greece: 1.64 per 1,000,000

Greek geniuses include Aristotle (IQ 190), a philosopher whose writings cover physics, biology, zoology, metaphysics, logic, ethics, aesthetics, poetry, theater, music, rhetoric, linguistics, politics and government – and constitute the first comprehensive system of Western philosophy, Euclid (IQ 180), the most prominent mathematician of antiquity, often referred to as the "father of geometry," and Homer (IQ 180), credited with being the first to write down the epic stories of The Iliad and The Odyssey, the impact of his tales continue to reverberate through Western culture.
 
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Germany has been a nation for about 150 years. Greece has been a country for 2500.

Gauss, in fact, died 20 years before Germany was founded, and was born in the Holy Roman Empire.

Seems like temporally, your list has some problems.
 
Lol @ the Homer IQ.

When the BS is just so sweet, it's like homemade chocolate pudding.
 
I'm curious as to how you came up with your IQ numbers since many were long dead before the concept of IQ numbers were developed, there are several different tests and generally speaking numbers above 150 get less and less accurate and more speculative.

Some details as to methodology or links would be gratefully received.
 
Germany has been a nation for about 150 years. Greece has been a country for 2500.

Gauss, in fact, died 20 years before Germany was founded, and was born in the Holy Roman Empire.

Seems like temporally, your list has some problems.

If I read the wiki articles right, wasn't germany the german confederation then, and prior to that wasn't it prussia which was a confederation/ empire of german states covering much of modern day germany, austria,poland etc?
 
If I read the wiki articles right, wasn't germany the german confederation then, and prior to that wasn't it prussia which was a confederation/ empire of german states covering much of modern day germany, austria,poland etc?

Sure, but it wasn't Germany. It might have been the Holy Roman Empire, Prussia, Austria-Hungary (depending on where in modern Germany it is) or,more likely, one of a bunch of various states, but I don't think there was a national identity of 'German' until the mid-1800s.

Seems like grouping 'geniuses' under their languages is a bit different than their nationality.

Of course, the entire exercise in the OP is a bit idiotic anyway.
 
Sure, but it wasn't Germany. It might have been the Holy Roman Empire, Prussia, Austria-Hungary (depending on where in modern Germany it is) or,more likely, one of a bunch of various states, but I don't think there was a national identity of 'German' until the mid-1800s.

Seems like grouping 'geniuses' under their languages is a bit different than their nationality.

Of course, the entire exercise in the OP is a bit idiotic anyway.

Thats kinda what I mean, they have always identified as german, but for most of history never been a country of germany, rather different confederations and empires. Even when they identified themselves as german, until it became a country they identified more by their region, like for example people from bararia would identify as bavarian first and german second.

Heck even after germany became a country, they became the german confederation, then later the weimarch republic, even prussia was used until 1947 in eastern germany.
 
I'm not sure the division by country interests me, but what us interesting is that so few people are responsible for so much monemental change in this world.
 
Germany has been a nation for about 150 years. Greece has been a country for 2500.

Gauss, in fact, died 20 years before Germany was founded, and was born in the Holy Roman Empire.

Seems like temporally, your list has some problems.

Sorry my historical gene went haywire after that comment.
Hellenic people have not been a single country since 500 CE.
They covered a mishmash of areas and had competing kingdoms, etc for centuries.
Areas like Mediterranean France, the Caucus seas area, Crimea, Sicily, etc, have been Greek territories and at their greatest extent, all of Anatolia under the Eastern Roman Empire (modern day Turkey).
 
Sorry my historical gene went haywire after that comment.
Hellenic people have not been a single country since 500 CE.
They covered a mishmash of areas and had competing kingdoms, etc for centuries.
Areas like Mediterranean France, the Caucus seas area, Crimea, Sicily, etc, have been Greek territories and at their greatest extent, all of Anatolia under the Eastern Roman Empire (modern day Turkey).

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