Kim Ung-Yong making history as the highest IQ person and Gregory Smith being nominated a Nobel Peace Prize are among top ten world’s young geniuses.
Kim Ung-Yong: The world’s highest IQ
According to the Guinness Book of World Records, Kim Ung-Yong has the highest IQ of anyone on Earth and is the most intelligent man alive today. He was able to read in Japanese, Korean, German and English by the age of four and solved complicated calculus problems at his fifth birthday. The superman was invited to America by NASA in 1969 and got a Ph.D. in physics from Colorado State University before he was 15. As of 2007, he serves as an adjunct faculty at Chungbuk National University.
On Japanese television, he focused on his proficiency in Chinese, Spanish, Vietnamese, Tagalog, German, English, Japanese, and Korean
Gregory Smith: Nobel Peace Prize nominee at the age of 12
Gregory Smith, born in 1990, could read at the age of two and entered the university at 10. He is the founder of International Youth Advocates, an organization promoting principles of peace and understanding among young people worldwide. The genius had opportunities to meet Bill Clinton, Mikhail Gorbachev and speak in front of the United Nation.
Smith has been nominated four times for a Nobel Peace Prize
Akrit Jaswal: The seven year-old surgeon
Akrit Jaswal is regarded as the Indian smartest man at his age with his IQ of 146. He performed the first medical procedure without experience of surgery and formal medical training when managing to free fingers of a girl whose hand had been burnt in a fire. She can now use her hand again. Akrit Jaswal is the youngest student ever to be accepted by an Indian University.
He has displayed his phenomenal intelligence on medicine and studied for a science degree at Chandigarh College
Aelita Andre: The 2-year-old potential artist
Aelita Andre, whose abstract paintings were preferred by the director of Brunswick Street Gallery in Melbourne’s Fitzroy, Mark Jamieson, and agreed to be shown in a group show, is only 22 months old. Though Jamieson felt shocked and embarrassed when knowing the truth, he still decided to proceed with the exhibition anyways.
Her works of art were painted when she was even younger
Cleopatra Stratan: The 3-year-old singer earning €1000 per song
Clepotra, born on October 6, 2002 in Chisinau, Moldova, becomes the youngest person ever to make commercial success as a singer with her 2006 album “La vârsta de trei ani” (literally means “at the age of 3”). This girl also holds a record for being the youngest artist to perfrom live two hours in front of a large audience and receive the highest payment.
She also receives an MTV award
Other extraordinary people
Saul Aaron Kripke is regarded as the world’s greatest living philosopher. When a teenager, he was invited to apply for a teaching position by the math department at Harvard
Michael Kevin Kearney made a history when becoming the world’s college graduate at the age of 10. He was also the winner of the $1,000,000 television game show “Who Wants to be a Millionaire?” in 2008
Fabiano Luigi Caruana became the youngest chess Grandmaster in the history of both the US and Italy at the age of 14. According to the April 2009 FIDE list, he is the world’s highest ranked player under 18 with an Elo rating of 2649
Willie Mosconi was able to play professional Billiards at the age of 6. He became the BCA World Champion of pool an unmatched fifteen times between 1941 and 1957
Elaina Smith, the youngest agony aunt aged 7, owns a local radio and becomes a little advisor of adult listeners
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