William James Sidis of Brookline, Massachusetts, the son of two Russian physicians, was admitted to Harvard at age 11, the youngest person to obtain that status.
1914 graduation photograph.
He lived an eclectic and not particularly happy life, not seemingly making the transfer to adult life very well, and having been arrested for being present at a Socialist demonstration in 1919. He died in 1944 of a cerebral hemorrhage at age 46.
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