Who is Marilyn Vos Savant?

Question

Can someone, (maybe her), tell me more about her and what's her contribution to society?

Answer 1

one who is asking featured questions abt parental...huh

Answer 2

Marilyn vos Savant
Marilyn vos Savant (born Marilyn Mach on August 11, 1946) is an American magazine columnist, author, lecturer, and playwright who rose to fame through her listing in the Guinness Book of World Records under "Highest IQ". Since 1986 she has written Ask Marilyn, a Sunday column in Parade magazine in which she answers questions from readers on a variety of subjects.

Answer 3

Marilyn vos Savant is a national columnist and author. She is an executive at Jarvik Heart, Inc., which manufactures artificial hearts for permanent and temporary use in the treatment of heart failure. The company can be visited at www.jarvikheart.com.

Marilyn was listed in the Guinness Book of World Records for five years under "Highest IQ" for both childhood and adult scores. She has since been inducted into the *Guinness Hall of Fame*. Marilyn was named by Toastmasters International as the #1 most popular communicator/speaker in the educational and social category.

She was named one of fifty “Women of the New Millennium” by the White House Vital Voices: Women in Democracy campaign. She was a winner of a “Women Making History” award from the National Women’s History Museum. Marilyn is the recipient of honorary Doctorates of Letters.

Since 1986, Marilyn has been writing the "Ask Marilyn" question-and-answer column for Parade, the Sunday magazine distributed by 379 newspapers, with a circulation of 34 million and a readership of 79 million, the largest periodical in the world. Questions from readers range from philosophical to mathematical to "just plain nuts," as Marilyn puts it. Her most recent books are Growing Up: A Classic American Childhood and The Art of Spelling, both published by W.W. Norton.

Marilyn was born in St. Louis, Missouri, the daughter of Mary vos Savant and Joseph Mach. She was the granddaughter of Mary Savant and Joseph vos Savant, and of Anna Moravec and Anton Mach.

Marilyn is married to Robert Jarvik MD, the inventor of the Jarvik 7 and Jarvik 2000 artificial hearts. They have two children, Mary and Dennis, both of whom also work at Jarvik Heart. All reside in Manhattan within a few blocks of each other, along with Mary's husband David and their two young daughters Valerie and Michelle.

Answer 4

Marilyn Vos Savant is a columnist for Parade magazine as well as an author, lecturer and playwright. She's done quite a bit for Gifted Education in America as well as apparently helped her husband, a leading heart researcher named Robert Jarvik, with heart research.

Beyond that, she's most well known for a listing in the Guiness Hall of Records as having the "Highest IQ" although that in and of itself is debatable. (Her having the "highest" not the fact that she does have a high IQ)

For further information see the article I link below:

Answer 5

an American magazine columnist, author, lecturer, and playwright who rose to fame through her listing in the Guinness Book of World Records under "Highest IQ". Since 1986 she has written Ask Marilyn, a Sunday column in Parade magazine in which she answers questions from readers on a variety of subjects.

Answer 6

The last answer is right on but felt the urge to say one added thing. There are different types of autism and the highest functioning form of this is individuals, who show a extraordinary level in one area or another(sometimes many area's) such as "Rainman" and his ability with numbers are refereed to as idiot Savant's for their high skill level Idiot meaning lower functioning in other areas. Savant meaning extraordinary ability. Named after our very own Mailyn Vos Savant.

Answer 7

Marilyn vos Savant (born Marilyn Mach on August 11, 1946) is an American magazine columnist, author, lecturer, and playwright who rose to fame through her listing in the Guinness Book of World Records under "Highest IQ". Since 1986 she has written Ask Marilyn, a Sunday column in Parade magazine in which she answers questions from readers on a variety of subjects.

Born in St. Louis to Mary vos Savant and Joseph Mach, Marilyn opposes the tradition of children taking their father's surname, instead using her mother's maiden name. Marilyn attended Washington University, but dropped out to pursue a career in writing and investing.

Marilyn's listing in the 1986 Guinness Book of World Records brought her widespread media attention. Among the periodicals profiling her was Parade, which followed its article with a selection of questions and her answers to them, the popularity of which launched a regular question-and-answer column, Ask Marilyn. In the column she solves mathematical and logical puzzles and answers questions on a wide range of subjects, including philosophy, physics, politics, education, and human nature, as well as responding to more traditional requests for self-help advice. Her answers sometimes provoke debate; two particularly controversial cases, those of the Monty Hall problem and Fermat's last theorem, are discussed below. The column has also provided a basis for many of her books.

Marilyn lives in New York City with her husband, artificial-heart pioneer Robert Jarvik. She is the Chief Financial Officer of Jarvik Heart, and assists her husband with cardiovascular disease research and prevention. She has also served on the Board of Directors of the National Council on Economic Education and on the Advisory Boards of the National Association for Gifted Children and the National Women's History Museum, the last of which gave her a "Women Making History" award in 1998 "for her contribution to changing stereotypes about women". She was named by Toastmasters International as one of the "Five Outstanding Speakers of 1999", and in 2003 received an honorary doctorate of letters from The College of New Jersey.

Answer 8

She is presumed to have the highest IQ around. The only contribution I know from her is she has an Q & A article in my Sunday paper, where she tries to out-clever everyone. Her personality seems pretty cool, she's got a dry sense of humor, but to start the article EVERY week letting us know she's the smartest in all the land, and then answer these trick questions? It's annoying

Answer 9

She writes a question and answer column for the sunday magazine 'Parade'. It usually comes bundled with the Sunday morning newspapers.

Answer 10

its a dog.
capital MVS.
i'm so dum.
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