List of Famous people with last name Sidis

William James Sidis

First Name William

Last Name Sidis

Born on April 1, 1898

Died on July 17, 1944 (aged 46)

Born in United States of America, New York, New York City

William James Sidis was an American child prodigy with exceptional mathematical and linguistic skills. He is notable for his 1920 book The Animate and the Inanimate, in which he speculates about the origin of life in the context of thermodynamics.

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Boris Sidis

First Name Boris

Last Name Sidis

Born on October 12, 1867

Died on October 24, 1923 (aged 56)

Born in Ukraine, Zhytomyr Oblast

Boris Sidis was a Ukrainian-American psychologist, physician, psychiatrist, and philosopher of education. Sidis founded the New York State Psychopathic Institute and the Journal of Abnormal Psychology. He was the father of child prodigy William James Sidis. Boris Sidis eventually opposed mainstream psychology and Sigmund Freud, and thereby died ostracized. He was married to a maternal aunt of Clifton Fadiman, the American intellectual.

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Sarah Mandelbaum

First Name Sarah

Last Name Mandelbaum

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