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Marilyn vos Savant (; born August 11, 1946) is an American who is known for having the highest recorded IQ according to the Guinness Book of Records, a competitive category the publication has since retired. ()os Savant is a magazine columnist, author, lecturer, and playwright."〔("The Time Everyone “Corrected” the World’s Smartest Woman" ). ''Priceonomics'', Feb 19, 2015〕 Since 1986, she has written "Ask Marilyn," a ''Parade'' magazine Sunday column where she solves puzzles and answers questions on various subjects. ==Biography== Marilyn vos Savant was born Marilyn Mach in St. Louis, Missouri to parents Joseph Mach and Marina vos Savant. Savant says one should keep premarital surnames, with sons taking their fathers’ and daughters their mothers’. The word savant, meaning someone of learning, appears twice in her family: her grandmother’s name was Savant; her grandfather’s, vos Savant. She is of Italian, Czechoslovakian, German, and Austrian ancestry, being descended from physicist and philosopher Ernst Mach. Teenage Savant worked in her father’s general store and wrote for local newspapers using pseudonyms. She married at 16 and divorced ten years later. Her second marriage ended when she was 35. She went to Meramec Community College and studied philosophy at Washington University in St. Louis but quit two years later to help with a family investment business. Savant moved to New York City in the 1980s to pursue a career in writing. Prior to starting “Ask Marilyn,” she wrote the ''Omni I.Q. Quiz Contest'' for ''Omni'', which included IQ quizzes and expositions on intelligence and its testing. Savant married Robert Jarvik (one developer of the Jarvik-7 artificial heart) on August 23, 1987 and was made Chief Financial Officer of Jarvik Heart, Inc. She has served on the Board of Directors of the National Council on Economic Education, on the advisory boards of the National Association for Gifted Children and the National Women's History Museum,〔(National Women’s History Museum )〕 and as a fellow of the Committee for Skeptical Inquiry.〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=http://www.csicop.org/about/csi_fellows_and_staff/ )〕 Toastmasters International named her one of “Five Outstanding Speakers of 1999,” and in 2003 she was awarded an honorary Doctor of Letters from The College of New Jersey. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Marilyn vos Savant」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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