We all were wondering about the 15 year old boy who cleared IPCC....yes he is a born prodigy but not the only 1...there is 1 more gifted person like him....
Tathagat Avatar Tulsi (born 9 September 1987) is an Indian physicist, best known as a child prodigy. He completed high school at the age of 9, earned a B.Sc. at the age of 10 and a M.Sc. at the age of 12 from Patna Science College (Patna University). In August 2009, he got his Ph.D. from the Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore at the age of 21.[1] In 2010, he was offered a position as Assistant Professor on contract (a non-permanent teaching position for fresh PhD graduates) at IIT Bombay.[2][3][4] Various Indian newspapers claimed that this made him the youngest faculty member ever at an IIT[5]
Biography
Tulsi was born in Patna, Bihar. He completed high school at the age of nine, earned a B.Sc. at the age of ten and a M.Sc. at the age of twelve from Patna Science College (Patna University).
He received wide public attention in 2001, when he was shortlisted by the Indian Department of Science and Technology (DST) to participate in a Nobel laureates conference in Germany. Later, the DST officials claimed that it was a mistake to shortlist him, and that he was a "fake prodigy".[6] Tulsi alleges that some students who accompanied him to Germany asked him to prove his brilliance, but he refused to share his research as it was incomplete.[6] This resulted in him being labeled a "fraud", whose father had forced him to mug up physics without any actual understanding.[6] Following the controversy, Tulsi suffered from depression, which he says, cost him a Ph.D. seat at IIT. He decided to "fight back" by earning a Ph.D. and gaining recognition as a scientist.[7]
Tulsi was admitted by the Indian Institute of Science (IISc).,[8] where he wrote a 33-page long Ph.D. thesis on "Generalizations of the Quantum Search Algorithm".[9] He has the special distinction of being one of the world's youngest scientists. At the age of 17, he co-authored a research manuscripttt ("A New Algorithm for Fixed-point Quantum Search") with Lov Grover, the inventor of a quantum search algorithm that goes by his name.
Tulsi is listed as one of the most gifted Asian youngsters by TIME magazine, mentioned as "Superteen" by SCIENCE, "Physics Prodigy" by The TIMES, "Master Mind" by The WEEKand listed by OUTLOOK as one of the smartest Indian youngsters. Tathagat Avatar Tulsi participated in the Stock Exchange of Visions project of Fabrica, Benetton's research centre in 2007. He was invited by Luciano Benetton for a dinner in honor of Al Gore on Jun. 14, 2007 in Milano, Italy. Tathagat's story was showcased by National Geographic Channel in the program My Brilliant Brain. The episode named "India's Geniuses" was aired on 13 Dec. 07 and was hosted by Bollywood actress Konkona Sen Sharma.
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