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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 隆掳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 who earns 1000聙 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隆氓).
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 隆掳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, 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 篓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
William Joseph Mosconi , nicknamed 隆掳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.
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