Not funny today--just some absolutely amazing young people:
Kim Ung-Yong
His world-record IQ of 210 makes him a genius nearly twice over. By age 3 (that’s not a typo) he was a physics student at university. NASA brought him from Korea to do research for them at age 8. He worked there for 10 years while earning a PhD in physics at the age of 16. When he left NASA and returned home, amazingly he could not find a job because he needed elementary, middle, and high school diplomas, all of which he had skipped and had to go back and earn.
Sho Yano
A 1500 SAT score is great, but every year dozens of
students score higher. Only, Sho Yano earned his score when he was 8 years old.
By that time he’d been reading for six years and composing music for four. At 9
he enrolled at Loyola University, and would graduate summa
cum laude four years later and enter med school. Five years
after that, when other kids might have celebrated an 18th birthday by buying
cigarettes or emancipating themselves from their parents, Sho was reveling in
his hard-earned PhD in molecular genetics and cell biology from the University
of Chicago.
Christopher Hirata
Kim Ung-Yong may be in Guinness as
the world’s smartest man, but that may need to be updated. Christopher Hirata’s
IQ is a mind-boggling, “verified” 225. His life is a stream of similarly
amazing facts. He skipped seventh through tenth grades. He would fill in for
his physics teacher in high school while himself not even yet a teenager. At
13, he did so well at the International Physics Olympiad that a “Youngest
Medalist” award was created and then given to him. His PhD came at the age of
22 from Princeton in the field of astrophysics. Smart kid.
Michael Kearney
The only partying Michael Kearney did in college involved birthday cakes and fruit punch. In 1995 he became the youngest college grad ever at the age of 10, with a bachelor’s in anthropology. A master’s degree in biochemistry from Middle Tennessee State University followed four years later, and by 2006 he was set to receive his doctorate at 22. Kearney had been more an infant prodigy than a child prodigy, telling his doctor “I have a left ear infection” at the age of six months.
All items above from onlinecolleges.net
Ruth Lawrence (1971) passed the Oxford University interview entrance examination in
mathematics, coming first out of all 530 candidates sitting the examination at
the age of 10. At the age of 13 she became the youngest to graduate from the
University of Oxford in modern times.
John von Neumann (1903–1957) a "mental
calculator" by six years old, who could tell jokes in classical Greek.
Tanishq Mathew Abraham (born 2003) is an American child
prodigy with Indian (East) ancestry who joined the on-campus college Astronomy
class at 7 years old. Not only did he pass the course with an A grade but he
was the top student among his college classmates (the youngest in the world).
He is also one of the youngest members of American Mensa, joining at 4 years
old in 2008. As of 2010, he and his younger sister, Tiara Thankam Abraham are
the youngest siblings to both join Mensa at 4 years old.
Akrit
Jaswal (born April 23, 1993) is an Indian adolescent who
is a child prodigy as a physician. He performed his first surgery at the age of
seven. He is the youngest person (at age 12) to get admitted in a medical
university in India.
Ricky Schroder won a Golden Globe Award at nine years old, youngest winner
ever.
H. P. Lovecraft recited poetry at two years old
and wrote long poems at five years old.
Pablo Picasso painted Picador at eight years old.
Wang Yani had
her paintings appear on postage stamps at six years old and in worldwide museum
exhibits at 12 years old.
John Stuart Mill knew several dead languages by
eight years old and studied scholastic philosophy at 12 years old.
Michelle Wie qualified for the USGA Women's Amateur
Public Links at 10 years old and won the same event at 13 years old, making her
the youngest person both to qualify for and win a USGA adult national
championship.
Wayne Gretzky was skating with 10-year-olds at
six years old. By 10 years old, he scored 378 goals and 139 assists, in just 85
games, with the Nadrofsky Steelers.
Tiger Woods was a
child prodigy, introduced to golf before the age of two, by his athletic father
Earl. In 1984 at the age of eight, he won the 9–10 boys' event, the youngest
age group available, at the Junior World Golf Championships. He first broke 80
at age eight. He went on to win the Junior World Championships six times,
including four consecutive wins from 1988 to 1991.
Willie Mosconi, nicknamed "Mr. Pocket
Billiards", played against professionals at six years old.
2nd section from wikipedia
Here's 13 minutes of beautiful music:
Well, maybe a little funny:
All my adult life I've wanted to be a child prodigy----fishducky
