Top 10 child prodigies from around the world (Part Two)

In the second installment of the five-part series, I will briefly discuss the brilliant minds of the world including Akrit Jaswal and Gregory Smith.

Akrit Jaswal (India)

This kid has been called the world’s smartest boy and its answer is quite easy. Having 146 IQ level, he is considered smartest person in India, a country of more than a billion people.

At the age of seven, he came to public attention when in 2000 he performed his first medical procedure at his family home. A local girl who could not afford a doctor was his first patient.

Her hand had been burnt in a fire, causing her fingers to close into a tight fist that wouldn’t 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.

While focusing his phenomenal intelligence on medicine 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.

Gregory Smith (United States of America)

Smith is the youngest noble prize winner, who was born in 1990. He could read at age two and had enrolled in university when he was only 10.

However, genius was only one half of his story, as he travelled across the world as a peace and children’s rights activist.

Smith 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 United Nationality. For these and other humanitarian and advocacy efforts, Smith has been nominated four times for a Nobel Peace Prize.

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