Meet The Sri Lankan Scientist Who Helped Detect Gravitational Waves

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    Meet The Sri Lankan Scientist Who Helped Detect Gravitational Waves

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    Dr. Nipuni Palliyaguru is part of the LIGO electromagnetic follow up team.

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    lankave ithin graduate nam Bell Labs untath ugannai gonnunta hodayi :lol::lol::lol:

    katunayake tti eke electrical engineering ugannath ganune thava mona kathada kabboma pimbena rataka :lol::lol::lol:
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    Don't say that, Some Women are better than most of the men, If you check Highest IQ list in the world most of the women are on top of the list. what happens is most Sri Lankans have 19th century attitude towards women.:yes::yes::yes:



    8. Judit Polgar (IQ Level- 170)


    She is the greatest female chess player according to many. Judit Polgar also became the youngest Grandmaster at the age of 15 and still holds that record. She is the only woman in FIDE’s Top 100 list, where she ranks number 63 on the list. This genius had defeated a reigning world number one player and ten other world champions in different tournaments. She created history in 2002 when she defeated the world number 1 Garry Kasparov in a match and that match went on to become a remarkable event in her career.:yes:


    • Fabiola Mann: IQ 162

    Fabiola Mann is a seventeen-year-old teen prodigy. She has scored the highest score on Mensa of 162, which is about two points higher than that of the famous physicist Stephen Hawking and the great scientist of past, Albert Einstein. A keen Chess player, Fabiola Mann plans to study and work in the field of Medicine. As of now, she is completing her schooling from the Northwood College School for Girls in London. A purple karate belt holder, she is also keenly interested in music and plays Piano as well as Guitar.

    12. Sharon Stone (IQ level- 154)


    This sexy seductress actually is alleged to have an IQ of 154. She has been nominated for several prestigious awards and even received many awards. Who thought the bold and confident actress in Basic Instinct could actually have an IQ that would put many men to shame? She was always an academically bright student and entered second standard at the age of five. She accepted a scholarship to Edinboro University of Pennsylvania when she was just 15years old. She accepted the scholarship and went there to study creative writing and fine arts. ( compare her with our so called actress:eek: who even don't know the day of Independence in Sri Lanka)


    • Olivia Manning: IQ 162

    Olivia Manning was tested through the Mensa I.Q Supervised test at the young age of 12. She surprised the whole world by becoming the second person along with Fabiola Mann to score more than 160 in the year 2012. The score of 160 is a popular landmark because as we have talked about it before, the same score was achieved by Stephen Hawking and Albert Einstein. To put things in perspective, both of these two young women have the potential to surpass these two legends of human history.

    • Judit Polgar: IQ 170

    Born on 23rd July 1976, Judith Polgar is a Hungarian Chess Grandmaster and is known as the greatest woman chess player of all time. She has an extremely high IQ of 170 and is considered to be a true genius. She is the only woman who has won at least once against every grandmaster she had come across, including Garry Kasparov and Viswanathan Anand. Judit Polgar was a child prodigy who beat her first International Master at the age of 10 and won against a Grandmaster at the age of 11. Judit Polgar is the most well known, non-academician woman on this list with an IQ of over 150.

    • Grace Hopper: IQ 175

    Grace Hopper or Grace Murray Hopper was an American Computer Scientist. She was considered to be the Smartest woman in the world and her contribution in the field of computing is unparalleled and unmatched, even today. She was one of the first Programmer of MARK 1 computer and was the developer of the first Compiler. She also worked on the languages Cobol and Fortran. She died in 1992 at the age of 92. With an IQ of 175, Grace Hopper was an incredibly intelligent person.

    • Ruth Lawrence: IQ 175

    Ruth Lawrence or Ruth Elke Lawrence-Naimark is a Mathematics Professor and British Mathematician, who has extensively worked and working in the field of Algebraic Topology and Knot theory. Born in 1971, she is a former child prodigy. She topped the Oxford entrance exam at the age of ten and even became the youngest person to have graduated from Oxford in modern times. Ruth Lawrence is known to have an IQ of 175, which is insanely huge! She is a member of American mathematical society is a Professor at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem.
     
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