re: Who was the smartest person you ever met?

Some big ole dude that used to hang out in a local FQ Locals Bar.. played football for Bama.. graduated law school didn’t like it, so he went to medical school..lmao

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partied his balls off including tons of drugs

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Doesn't sound all that smart.

David Garlock

Friend who is an actuary (pretty sure he’s on the spectrum as well). Looking forward to the day this guy makes it on Jeopardy

Good friend from college who double majored in EE and physics, went on to get PHD and now works in defense industry

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Who was the smartest person you ever met?

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Every one of my friends who didn't get married.

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How did you know?

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I'm reminded every payday.

A girl I dated father, early college years. Guy could dominate wheel of fortune by only showing sometimes 2 or 3 letters.
Awesome In jeopardy. Reported some factual errors that lsu had published - this was when he was retired and had time on his hands.
He was one of the reasons that after LSU kicked me out he encouraged me to re-enroll and become a better student by staying focused.
Great guy Mr Harvey Cannon

A drug dealer from the projects in Decatur Alabama. He worked for me out of a work release program here in Louisiana. He could have been a brain surgeon like Ben Carson, but drug money was just too easy.

Had an English professor who called role at the beginning of class on the first day. At the end of class he looked each person and called them by their first and last names. Over 50 students. Talked to other students who said he did the same thing with them. He had a ponytail chain smoked between classes. I send him stuff from work to proofread from time to time. Cool guy with a witty, dry sense of humor.

Father Fitzgerald at Jesuit. Fluent in multiple languages, eidetic memory, multiple degrees (2 bachelors & 3 masters), and of all things he decided to become a Jesuit priest. Died of ALS unfortunately way before his time.

I, too, had the pleasure.

Unfortunately, he didn't have the ability to speak or communicate very well at the time, after his diagnosis.

One of the seven original design engineers for the SR-71. Flew in from the Skunk Works for a one-time special inspection of an SR-71 that I was called in to do some structural inspections on.

As he hobbled across the hanger to meet myself and my assistant I was thinking "Oh Jeez, this guy is probably on his last legs, how much help is he going to be." (This was before he told me who he was.)

I have never been so wrong on a first impression of anyone in my life. He wa a genius on a scale you can't quantify. What was amazing is how down home and humble he was when describing what had transpired and what the inspections we were going to do were looking for, worse case scenario. For him to talk aerospace engineering to my young, gungho but naive arse and say things in a way that they were understood by an average Joe was a feat in itself. Even gave us a walkaround the bird describing things they discovered, worked through and were surprised at with the SR during the initial design and testing phases. Amazing stuff and an absolute pleasure to hear fro the mouth of one who had helped design the fastest and loveliest plane ever known to mankind.

Of course he couldn't show us the cockpit due to some of the still super sensitive equipment at that time, but he walked us around and pointed out several other aspects of the bird that just boggled the mind.

Don't know what his IQ was, but I venture to say it would have been nearly unmeasurable.