Terence Tao
As we reach number 1 on our list of smartest people in the people, it obvious that we need to finish with a really amazing human being.
Terence Tao has an incredible IQ of 230 and he is an expert in numerous fields of science.
The Australian-born Chinese has important works on subjects like partial differential equations, harmonic analysis, additive combinatorics, ergodic Ramsey theory, analytic number theory and random matrix theory.
At the age of 8, on a pre -1995 SAT, Terence Tao scored 760 points and the age of 20, he earned a Ph.D from Princeton University.
During his life, this amazing human being with an IQ of 230 earned and received numerous prizes for his work like the Salem Prize ( 2000 ), the Bôcher Memorial Prize ( 2002 ) , the Clay Research Award ( 2003 ) and many more.
