Friday, March 25, 2011

Extraordinary People

Kim Ung Yong:-


Kim Ung-Yong was born on March 8, 1962. He is listed under "Highest IQ" in the Guinness Book of World Records and the book estimated the boy's score at about 210. He began speaking at 4 months, could converse fluently by 6 months, and was able to read  Japanese, Korean , German, and English by his second birthday. He solved complicated differential and integral calculus problems on Japanese television at the age of four. NASA invited him to United States in 1970. He finished his university studies, getting a Ph.D. in physics at Colorado State University. In 1974, during his university studies, he began his research work at NASA and continued this work until his return to Korea in 1978. He published about 90 papers on Hydraulics in scientific journals. As of 2007 he also serves as adjunct faculty at Chungbuk National University.


Gregory Smith:-


He was born in 1990 and began reading at age of 2 years and had enrolled in University at the age of 10 years. This young man travels the globe as a peace and children's rights activist and he is the founder of International Youth Advocates (an organization that promotes principles of peace and understanding among young people throughout the world). He had met Bill Clinton and Mikhail Gorbachev and spoke in front of the UN. Smith has been nominated four times for a Nobel Peace Prize for these and other humanitarian and advocacy efforts.


Akrit Jaswal:-


Akrit Jaswal was born on April 23, 1993 is an Indian Adolescent. Despite never having attended medical school, he has gained fame as a Physician in his native India. He gained fame for performing surgery at the age of seven. He has an estimated IQ of 146 from a single test. He started speaking in 10th month of his life and started reading Shakespeare at the age of 5. Akrit came to public attention when in 2000 he performed his first medical procedure at his home. He was 7 years old then. His patient was a local girl who could not afford a doctor and was 8 years old. Her hand had been burnt in fire, causing her fingers to close into a tight fist that would not 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 became India's youngest university student studying for a BSc in a Punjab University, Chandigarh, India. He is currently studying for a masters degree in applied chemistry. 


Cleopatra Stratan:-


Cleopatra Stratan  was born on 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 who 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. Some of her songs have already been translated into English and Spanish. As of 2006 December, Cleopatra's biggest hit is the song "Ghita". Cleopatra released her second album called La Varsta De 5 Ani with the hit song "Zunea-Zunea" in 2008.


Aelita Andre:-


The abstract paintings of emerging artist Aelita Andre have people in Australia ’s art world talking. Aelita is 3 years old (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 anyways.
You can see her paintings and even you can buy them. Please visit the website
http://www.aelitaandreart.com/aelitaandre/Home.html


Saul Aaron Kripke:-


Saul Aaron Kripke was born in New York and grew up in Omaha in 1940. Kripke was labled a prodigy, having taught himself Ancient Hebrew by the age of six, read the complete works of Shakespeare by nine, and mastered the works of Descartes and complex mathematical problems before graduating elementary school. He wrote his first completeness theorem in modal logic at the age of 17, and had it published a year later. Kripke was awarded the Schock Prize, philosophys equivalent of the Nobel . Nowadays, he is thought to be the worlds greatest living philosopher.


Michael Kevin Kearney:-


Michael Kevin Kearney was born on January 18, 1984, in Honolulu, Hawaii (USA). He is a former child prodigy known for setting several world records and teaching college at the age of 17. He began speaking at the age of 4 months. He was given Multiple Choice diagnostic tests for the Johns Hopkins precocious math program when he was 4 years old and he achieved a perfect score without having studied for the exam. 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 October 2006, he became a finalist on the Mark Burnett/AOL quiz/puzzle game Gold Rush, winning $100,000. In November 2006, in front of a national audience on Entertainment Tonight, he went on to win the grand prize of an additional $1,000,000. Kearney was also a contestant on Who wants to be a Millionaire which aired on April 25 & 28, 2008. He left with $25,000.


Fabiano Luigi Caruana:-


Fabiano Luigi Caruana was born on July 30, 1992 in Miami, Florida (USA). He is Grandmaster and Chess Prodigy with dual citizenship of Italy and the United States. On 15 July 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 January 2011 FIDE list, he has an Elo rating of 2721, making him 25th in the world and No. 1 in the World's Top Juniors.


Willie Mosconi:-


William Joseph Mosconi (June 27, 1913 – September 12, 1993) was an American professional pool (pocket billiards) player from Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Between the years of 1941 and 1957, he won World Straight Pool Championship 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:-


Elaina Smith is a very wise 7-year old girl from Coventry, West Midlands, has her weekly slot on Mercia FM’s breakfast show and helps hundreds of people write to her with their problems each weekHer local radio station gave her the job after she rang and offered advice to a woman caller who had been dumped. She gives tips on everything from ending a stale relationship, how to dump boyfriends and how to get a man to dealing with lazy older brothers.

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