(Reworked from a 10/2013 post.)
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.
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
William James Sidis was quite possibly the smartest man who ever lived. Sidis had the highest IQ ever recorded with a score estimated to be 50 to 100 points higher than Albert Einstein's. Born in Boston in 1898, William James Sidis made headlines in the early 20th century as a child prodigy with an amazing intellect. He could read the New York Times before he was 2. At age 11, he already mastered over 40 languages and entered Harvard University as one of the youngest students in the school's history. He attempted a political career but died young (at age 46), from a brain hemorrhage.
William James Sidis was quite possibly the smartest man who ever lived. Sidis had the highest IQ ever recorded with a score estimated to be 50 to 100 points higher than Albert Einstein's. Born in Boston in 1898, William James Sidis made headlines in the early 20th century as a child prodigy with an amazing intellect. He could read the New York Times before he was 2. At age 11, he already mastered over 40 languages and entered Harvard University as one of the youngest students in the school's history. He attempted a political career but died young (at age 46), from a brain hemorrhage.
Here's 13 minutes of
beautiful music:
Well, maybe a little funny:
The original cartoons:
And a bunch of new ones:
Carol Wyer's newest book,
"The Chosen Ones"
is available on Amazon tomorrow.
This is the 5th & last book in the DI Carter series.
I read an advance copy.
It's as good (or better) than the rest of the series.
Here's my Amazon review:
Another book, another winner!! I thought I knew who the killer was, but it wasn't him--or him--or him. Just as she did in the other books in this series, Ms. Wyer kept me guessing until the end. Whether the subject is murder or humor, this lady really knows how to write!!
All my adult life I've wanted to be a child prodigy----fishducky
