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William James Sidis (/ ˈ s aɪ d ɪ s /; April 1, 1898 – July 17, 1944) was an American child prodigy with exceptional mathematical and linguistic skills, for which he was active as a mathematician, linguist, historian, and author (whose works were published covertly due to never using his real name).
Later in August, after gathering 33,000 signatures in a Change.org petition and raising money via GoFundMe, a group of Prodigy fans paid for a plane to fly over the offices of Amazon, Hulu, Apple, and Netflix with a "Save Star Trek: Prodigy" banner. [15] In October, the series was picked up by Netflix and the second season was scheduled for ...
Carmen M. Ortiz, then U.S. Attorney for the District of Massachusetts, said in a statement: "As a parent and a sister, I can only imagine the pain felt by the family and friends of Aaron Swartz, […] I must, however, make clear that this office's conduct was appropriate in bringing and handling this case."
László Polgár (born 11 May 1946) is a Hungarian chess teacher and educational psychologist. He is the father of the famous Polgár sisters: Zsuzsa, Zsófia, and Judit, whom he raised to be chess prodigies, with Judit and Zsuzsa becoming the best and second-best female chess players in the world, respectively.
A child prodigy was on track to be the youngest person to graduate from college until, his parents claim, the school veered off course. Laurent Simons, 9, stepped into the global spotlight last ...
De Forest lives in Las Vegas, Nevada with her parents, Douglas de Forest and Katherine Olsen de Forest. Douglas is a musician and composer, and Katherine is a former actress and model. Autumn De Forest is the descendant of twentieth-century artists Lockwood de Forest (1850-1932), George de Forest Brush (1855-1941) and Roy de Forest (1930-2007).
Ke Xu was born in Hubei, China and won a scholarship to Raffles Institution in Singapore. He then attended University of Cambridge where he graduated third in his class of 250 with a degree in mathematics.
MartinLogan was founded by Gayle Martin Sanders and Ron Logan Sutherland who met in the late 1970s at a high-end audio store Sanders managed in Lawrence, Kansas.Despite different backgrounds (Sanders had trained in architecture and advertising, Sutherland in electrical engineering) they shared a passion for music and electrostatic loudspeakers.