Kim Ung-yong
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About
Professor and former Guinness World Record holder for the highest IQ, of 210. He has worked for NASA and has served on faculty at Chungbuk National University and Shinhan University.
Before Fame
By the time he was five he could speak five languages. Also at five he gained fame for appearing on Japan's Fuji TV and solving differential equations.
Trivia
He found his work at NASA to be unfulfilling, he felt like a machine. So he left and pursued a PHD in engineering.
Family Life
His father was a physics professor and his mother was a medical professor.
Associated With
He can be associated with Federico Faggin, a fellow genius engineer.