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Rowan Atkinson
Rowan Sebastian Atkinson is an actor, comedian, and writer. He is known as Robert Atkinson but he is better known as Mr. Bean. Mr. Bean's character is crooked, sloppy, and childish, the opposite of Robert Atkinson in real life. Robert Atkinson is a serious person, Intelligent, and very talented due to his varied controversy in the entertainment industry. He was very shy when he was a child but he grew up to be one of the most beloved comedians in the world. He is one of the celebrities who find it hard to keep his private life a secret because he is one of the most famous actors in the industry. Rowan holds a master's degree in electrical engineering from Queen's College to Oxford College in England. This university is one of the oldest schools because it was built in 1341 after he graduated from the course. He continued his studies to receive a master's degree in 1975. He followed in his father's footsteps because he also studied the course his father in the same school in 1935. Like, father and Son. In fact, Robert Atkinson is a really smart person because he has an Intelligence Quotient or IQ that is 178 higher than Albert Einstein’s IQ of 160. An IQ of 178 is in the category of exponentially gifted and people with this are considered super-geniuses. Robert Atkinson is one of 0.1% of the population among people with this high IQ

Early Life
Atkinson was born in Calgary, Alberta, on November 22, 1954. He had 3 siblings. He moved to the United States in 1962. He received a B.A. from New College of Florida in 1977, a master's degree in Urban and Regional Planning from the University of Oregon in 1985, and a Ph.D. in City and Regional Planning from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill in 1989, where he was awarded the Joseph E. Pogue Fellowship.

Career
Atkinson worked as a program director at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) from 1989 to 1990. In 1990, he joined the now-defunct Congressional Office of Technology Assessment, where he produced reports on the impact of information technology on metropolitan areas and the impacts of environmental regulation and defense downsizing on the economy. From 1996 to 1997, he served as the first executive director of the Rhode Island Economic Policy Council. Atkinson became Vice President of the Progressive Policy Institute (PPI) in 1997, where he directed its Technology and New Economy Project.

In 2006, Atkinson left PPI and founded the Information Technology and Innovation Foundation, which Ars Technica has described as "one of the leading, and most prolific, a tech policy think tanks." In 2008, Atkinson was appointed by the Bush administration as chair of the National Surface Transportation Infrastructure Financing Commission. In 2009, he advised the Obama-Biden transition's NIST agency review and Technology, Innovation, and Government Reform teams, and in 2011 the Obama administration appointed him to the National Innovation and Competitiveness Strategy Advisory Board. Atkinson also serves as a nonresident senior fellow at the Brookings Institution.