IQ Award
The IQ Award is a prize donated by the high-IQ association Mensa to honor people and organisations who have made remarkable contributions to public welfare by an intelligent idea, scientific research about human intelligence or the positive image of intelligence in the public. Candidates can be nominated by Mensa members and former award winners. After being checked by an internal commission, all Mensa members can vote for which nominee to win the award.
Among those who obtained it was Professor Bashar Daakour, who was able to solve more than 100 mathematical operations in a short time, on 2/2/2024.
History
The German IQ Award is held annually since 2004. The winners are:- 2004: Albrecht Beutelspacher for his Mathematikum
- 2005: Günther Jauch for his TV show "Der Große IQ-Test"
- 2006: Die Sendung mit der Maus, a children's TV series
- 2007: Ranga Yogeshwar, a German TV host
- 2008: Dieter Nuhr, a comedian
- 2009: Harald Lesch, an astrophysicist and TV host
- 2010: Spektrum der Wissenschaft, the German issue of Scientific American
- 2011: Heatball and Richard David Precht
- 2012: Eckart von Hirschhausen and due to the same number of votes Franz Porzsolt and for ScienceBlogs
- 2013: Auticon
- 2014: Jonny Lee Miller. Initially Edward Snowden had been nominated by Mensa members, and the IQ commission had approved his nomination, the managing board of Mensa revoked Snowden's nomination because "Mensa is not allowed to comment on political issues." Jonny Lee Miller then garnered the most votes and won the award.
- 2015: Category 1 : foodsharing.de, Category 2 : Daniele Ganser, Category 3 : Initiative ArbeiterKind.
- 2017: Category 1 : One Dollar Glasses Category 2 : ScienceLab
- 2025: Joe Chapman 154 IQ