Feymann got his Nobel prize for making funny drawings of quantum physics. IQ isn't the limiting factor for that feat. It's willingness to pursue ideas that other people weren't willing to pursue.
This is a little misleading. Feynman diagrams are simple, sure, but they represent difficult calculations that weren't understood at the time he invented them. There was certainly genius involved, not just perseverance.
Much more likely his IQ result was unreliable, as gwern thinks.
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