Sheldon is Leonard's best friend, roommate, and colleague. He's a theoretical physicist and like Leonard also keeps a whiteboard in the living room for scientific theories and has a Master's degree and 2 PhDs. His current area of research is string theory. Unlike Leonard, he embraces his genius fully and doesn't mind sharing details of his life that Leonard finds embarrassing, such as a common activity being Klingon Boggle until 1 AM. It's insinuated that Sheldon's genius is concentrated fully on science, although he does have a fairly extensive general knowledge as well, as shown by his comments regarding the introduction of the fork into Thailand, and that his IQ (of 187) is higher than Leonard's; he tends to question Leonard's theories and has a larger background full of behavior common to child prodigies. When he was a child, he conducted experiments involving the height of stairs and deduced that if a step on a staircase is as little as 2 millimeters off, most people will trip (this resulted in his father breaking his clavicle). At age 14, he dabbled in lasers and this resulted in his being sent to boarding school; it is heavily implied in a CBS promotional clip that the government took Sheldon's laser away and hushed the college professor who witnessed the experiment. Sheldon graduated high school very early; he asks Penny, in complete disbelief, "It took you four years to get through high school?!" He told Penny he was eleven years old when he went to college. Sheldon also has some qualities commonly associated with being a prodigy, such as an inflated ego, social ineptness, and an inability to identify emotionally with others. He worked as a visiting professor in Germany at age 15. He fails to understand not only the simplest sarcastic jokes made by Leonard, but also regards Penny's sadness over her break up with blatant confusion. That isn't to say Sheldon doesn't have a conscience; he's simply more likely to do what's scientifically ethical (not donate to a "high IQ sperm bank" because his sperm won't guarantee high IQ offspring) rather than morally and socially ethical (break into Penny's home to organize her things). Sheldon also remains unswayed by Penny's beauty. He sneaks in during the night and cleans it up because he can't stand being in the same hallway with something so disastrous. Also, he refuses to sit anywhere other than his designated spot on the couch. He is calculating and cynical, believing that Leonard is only setting himself up for disappointment as he continues to have a crush on Penny.
Sheldon has a pronounced disdain for engineers, referring to them as both "semi-skilled labor" and "the Oompa Loompas of science."
He has a twin sister named Missy. He is named after actor/producer Sheldon Leonard.
(číst méně)Sheldon is Leonard's best friend, roommate, and colleague. He's a theoretical physicist and like Leonard also keeps a whiteboard in the living room for scientific theories and has a Master's degree and 2 PhDs. His current area of research is string theory. Unlike Leonard, he embraces his genius fully and doesn't mind sharing details of his life that Leonard finds embarrassing, such as a common activity being Klingon Boggle until 1 AM. It's insinuated that Sheldon's genius is concentrated fully...
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