Jacob Barnett is a 14-year-old boy who is currently studying for a Master’s degree in quantum physics. At the age of 2, he was diagnosed with autism and was told that he’d never be able to read. With an IQ of 170 (higher than Einstein’s), he was tipped as a future Nobel Prize winner and is a paid researcher Indiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis. Jacob taught himself calculus, algebra and geometry in two weeks, he can solve up to 200 numbers of Pi, and has a photographic memory.
In 2011, he became the world’s youngest published astrophysics researcher and gave a Tedx Teen Talk on “Forgetting what you know”:
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