1. Kim Ung-Yong
Attended University at age 4, Ph.D at age 15, worlds highest IQ
This
Korean super-genius was born in 1962 and might just be the smartest guy
alive today (hes recognized by the Guinness Book of World Records as
having the highest IQ of anyone on the planet). By the age of four he
was already able to read in Japanese, Korean, German, and English. At
his fifth birthday, he solved complicated differential and integral
calculus problems.. Later, on Japanese television, he demonstrated his
proficiency in Chinese, Spanish, Vietnamese, Tagalog, German, English,
Japanese, and Korean. Kim was listed in the Guinness Book of World
Records under Highest IQ; the book estimated the boys score at over 210.
Kim was a guest student of physics at Hanyang University from the age
of 3 until he was 6. At the age of 7 he was invited to America by NASA.
He finished his university studies, eventually getting a Ph.D. in
physics at Colorado State University before he was 15. In 1974, during
his university studies, he began his research work at NASA and continued
this work until his return to Korea in 1978 where he decided to switch
from physics to civil engineering and eventually received a doctorate in
that field. Kim was offered the chance to study at the most prestigious
universities in Korea , but instead chose to attend a provincial
university. As of 2007 he also serves as adjunct faculty at Chungbuk
National University .
2. Gregory Smith
Nominated for a Nobel Peace Prize at age 12
Born in
1990, Gregory Smith could read at age two and had enrolled in university
at 10. But genius is only one half of the Greg Smith story. When not
voraciously learning, this young man travels the globe as a peace and
childrens rights activist.
He is the
founder of International Youth Advocates, an organization that promotes
principles of peace and understanding among young people throughout the
world. He has met with Bill Clinton and Mikhail Gorbachev and spoke in
front of the UN. For these and other humanitarian and advocacy efforts,
Smith has been nominated four times for a Nobel Peace Prize. His latest
achievement? He just got his driver license.
3. Akrit Jaswal
The Seven Year-Old Surgeon
Akrit
Jaswal is a young Indian who has been called the worlds smartest boy and
its easy to see why. His IQ is 146 and is considered the smartest
person his age in India a country of more than a billion people.
Akrit came to public attention when in 2000 he performed his first
medical procedure at his family home. He was seven. His patient a local
girl who could not afford a doctor was eight. Her hand had been burnt
in a fire, causing her fingers to close into a tight fist that wouldnt
open. Akrit had no formal medical training and no experience of surgery,
yet he managed to free her fingers and she was able to use her hand
again.
He focused his phenomenal intelligence on medicine and at the age of
twelve he claimed to be on the verge of discovering a cure for cancer.
He is now studying for a science degree at Chandigarh College and is the
youngest student ever accepted by an Indian University .
4. Cleopatra Stratan
a 3 year old singer
Clepotra
was born October 6, 2002 in Chisinau , Moldova and is the daughter of
Moldovan-Romanian singer, Pavel Stratan . She is the youngest person
ever to score commercial success as a singer, with her 2006 album La
vrsta de trei ani (At the age of 3). She holds the record for being the
youngest artist that performed live for two hours in front of a large
audience, the highest paid young artist, the youngest artist to receive
an MTV award and the youngest artist to score a #1 hit in a country
(Ghita in Romanian Singles Chart).
5. Aelita Andre
The 2-year-old artist who showed her paintings in a famous Gallery
The
abstract paintings of emerging artist Aelita Andre have people in
Australia s art world talking. Aelita is two (the works were painted
when she was even younger).
Aelita got an opportunity to show her paintings when Mark Jamieson ,
the director of Brunswick Street Gallery in Melbourne s Fitzroy, was
asked by a photographer whose work he represented to consider the work
of another artist. Jamieson liked what he saw and agreed to include it
in a group show.
Jamieson
then started to promote the show, printing glossy invitations and
placing ads in the magazines Art Almanac and Art Collector , featuring
the abstract work. Only then did he discover a crucial fact about the
new artist: Aelita Andre is Kalashnikovas daughter, and was just 22
months old. Jamieson was shocked and embarrassed but decided to proceed
with the exhibition anyways.
6. Saul Aaron Kripke
Invited to apply for a teaching post at Harvard while still in high school
A rabbis
son, Saul Aaron Kripke was born in New York and grew up in Omaha in
1940. By all accounts he was a true prodigy. In the fourth grade he
discovered algebra, and by the end of grammar school he had mastered
geometry and calculus and taken up philosophy. While still a teenager he
wrote a series of papers that eventually transformed the study of modal
logic. One of them earned a letter from the math department at Harvard ,
which hoped he would apply for a job until he wrote back and declined,
explaining, My mother said that I should finish high school and go to
college first. After finishing high school, the college he eventually
chose was Harvard.
Kripke was awarded the Schock Prize, philosophys equivalent of the
Nobel . Nowadays, he is thought to be the worlds greatest living
philosopher.
7. Michael Kevin Kearney
earned his first degree at age 10 and became a reality show Millionaire
24
year-old Michael Kearney became known as the worlds youngest college
graduate at the age of 10. In 2008, Kearney earned $1,000,000 on the
television game show Who Wants to be a Millionaire?
Kearny was born in 1984 and is was known for setting several world records and teaching college at the age of 17.
He spoke his first words at four months. At the age of six months, he
said to his pediatrician have a left ear infection and learned to read
at the age of ten months. When Michael was four, he was given diagnostic
tests for the Johns Hopkins precocious math program and achieved a
perfect score. He finished high school at age 6, enrolled at Santa Rosa
Junior College graduating at 10 with an Associate of Science in Geology.
He is listed in the Guinness Book as the worlds youngest university
graduate at the age of 10, receiving a bachelors degree in anthropology.
For a while, he also held the record for the worlds youngest
postgraduate.
But in 2006, he became worldwide famous after reaching the finals on
the Mark Burnett/AOL quiz/puzzle game Gold Rush, and became the first $1
million winner in the online reality game.
8. Fabiano Luigi Caruana
a chess prodigy who became the youngest Grandmaster at age 14
Fabulous
Fabiano is a 16-year-old chess Grandmaster and chess prodigy with dual
citizenship of Italy and the United States . On 2007 Caruana became a
Grandmaster at the age of 14 years, 11 months, 20 days the youngest
Grandmaster in the history of both Italy and the United States . In the
April 2009 FIDE list, he has an Elo rating of 2649, making him the
worlds highest ranked player under the age of 18.
9. Willie Mosconi
played professional Billiards at age 6
William
Joseph Mosconi , nicknamed Mr. Pocket Billiards was a American
professional pocket billiards (pool) player from Philadelphia ,
Pennsylvania . Willie s father owned a pool hall where he wasnt allowed
to play, but Willie improvised by practicing with small potatoes from
his mothers kitchen and an old broomstick. His father soon realized that
his son was a child prodigy began advertising challenge matches, and
though Willie had to stand on a box in order to reach the table, he beat
experienced players many years his senior.
In 1919, an exhibition match was arranged between six-year old Willie
and the reigning World Champion, Ralph Greenleaf . The hall was packed,
and though Greenleaf won that match, Willie played very well launching
his career in professional billiards. In 1924, at the tender age of
eleven, Willie was the juvenile straight pool champion and was regularly
holding trick shot exhibitions.
Between the years of 1941 and 1957, he won the BCA World Championship
of pool an unmatched fifteen times. Mosconi pioneered and employed
numerous trick shots, set many records, and helped to popularize the
game of billiards. He still holds the officially recognized straight
pool high run record of 526 consecutive balls.
10. Elaina Smith
youngest agony aunt aged 7
Her local
radio station gave her the job after she rang and offered advice to a
woman caller who had been dumped. Elainas tip go bowling with pals and
drink a mug of milk was so good she got a weekly slot and now advises
thousands of adult listeners. The littler adviser tackles problems
ranging from how to dump boyfriends and how to cope with relationship
breakdown to dealing with smelly brothers.
When one listener wrote to Elaina asking how to get a man, she replied:
Shake your booty on the dance floor and listen to High School Musical.
Another caller asked how to get her man back, Elaina told her: Hes not
worth the heartache. Lifes too short to be upset with a boy.
