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 intell igence 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 who earns 1000€ per song
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¡å). 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 abst ract 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.
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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 th e 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 ¡°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 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, rece iving 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
On 2007 Caruana became a Grandmaster at the age of 14 years, 11 months, 20 days ¨C 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 < BR>
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 Will ie 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 straigh t pool high run record of 526 consecutive balls.
10. Elaina Smith : youngest agony aunt aged 7
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