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Kim Ung-Yong: Attended University at age 4, PhD at age
15; world's highest IQ
This Korean super-genius was born in 1962 and might just be
the smartest guy alive today (he's 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 boy's 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 PhD. 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.
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 children’s 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.
Akrit Jaswal: The Seven Year-Old Surgeon
Akrit Jaswal is a young Indian who has been called "the
world's smartest boy" and it's 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 years old. Her hand had been burnt in a fire, causing
her fingers to close into a tight fist that wouldn't 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.
Cleopatra Stratan: a 3 year old singer who earns 1000€ per
song
Cleopatra 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 vârsta 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).
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 Kalashnikova's daughter, and was just 22 months old.
Jamieson was shocked and embarrassed but decided to proceed
with the exhibition anyway.
Saul Aaron Kripke: Invited to apply for a teaching post
at Harvard while still in high school
A rabbi's 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
maths 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, philosophy's equivalent
of the Nobel. Nowadays, he is thought to be the world's
greatest living philosopher.
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 world's
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 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 paediatrician "I 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 maths 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 world's youngest university graduate at the age of 10,
receiving a bachelor's degree in anthropology. For a while,
he also held the record for the world's youngest
postgraduate.
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.
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 world's
highest ranked player under the age of 18.
Willie Mosconi: played professional Billiards at age 6
William Joseph Mosconi, nicknamed "Mr. Pocket Billiards" was
an American professional pocket billiards (pool) player from
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Willie's father owned a pool
hall where he wasn’t allowed to play, but Willie improvised
by practicing with small potatoes from his mother's kitchen
and an old broomstick. His father soon realized that his son
was a child prodigy and 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.
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.
Elaina’s 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: "He's not worth the heartache.
Life's too short to be upset with a boy."
Jayne Nisbet - aged 20
From a very young age I have always wanted to be an athlete and compete at the very top level. My dream has always been and still is to compete at the Olympic Games – The highest level any athlete can compete at. When I was a youngster I participated in many different sports, ranging from dancing, swimming, running, tennis and football to mention but a few. I have always been very competitive right through growing up, and when I was 15 I decided to take up athletics.
With encouragement from my parents, who transported me from venue to venue, I got invited to join Edinburgh Athletics club as I was spotted at an inter area schools athletics competition where I won my first athletics competition. My first selection for a competition was the BAA youth games which involved children from all over Edinburgh and the Lothians competing against one another in a variety of sports, my one being athletics (high jump). At this point I trained 2 times a week, still enjoying a variety of sports at school and out of school, sport was my passion.
Five years on and now I train 6 days a week and have competed for Scotland and GB on numerous occasions. I am on the Commonwealth games funding programme for Delhi 2010 for high jump and triple jump and will hopefully represent my country in Delhi and aim to compete at the 2012 Olympics in London. Coming from a school age child to an international athlete and 3rd year university student, I have been through many ups and downs. I take Wellwoman tablets to help me get through my busy schedule. As I train sometimes twice a day I am using up energy and need optimum levels of essential vitamins which are found in Wellwoman tablets.
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