Akrit Jaswal
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Akrit Jaswal (born April 23, 1993 ) is an Indian adolescent who has been hailed as a child prodigy who has gained fame in his native India as a physician, despite never having attended medical school. He gained fame for performing surgery at the age of seven.[1] He is a Hindu Rajput of Jaswal clan from Himachal Pradesh India.
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[edit] Life and education
According to his mother Raksha Kumari Jaswal, Akrit was an early starter, skipped the toddler stage and started walking. He started speaking in his 10th month and was reading Shakespeare at the age of 5[citation needed]. Akrit developed a passion for science and anatomy at an early age. Doctors at local hospitals took notice and started allowing him to observe surgeries when he was 6 years old. Inspired by what he saw, Akrit read everything he could on the topic. When he was seven years old, an impoverished family unable to pay for regular healthcare heard about his amazing abilities, and asked if he would operate on their daughter. The surgery was successful and was widely celebrated. Akrit hopes to someday continue his studies at the Imperial College London.[2]
He became India's youngest university student studying for a BSc in Punjab University, Chandigarh, India. He is currently studying for a master's degree in applied chemistry.
He has an estimated IQ of 146.[3]
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[edit] References
- ^ "7-year-old Indian boy performs surgery". Punch. July 13, 2008. http://www.punchng.com/Articl.aspx?theartic=Art200807132114651.
- ^ Senthilingam, Meera. "Pass me the scalpel, Mummy". Imperial College Magazine, London. Archived from the original on 2007-03-17. http://web.archive.org/web/20070317200951/http://www.union.ic.ac.uk/media/iscience/article_template_typ.php?articleid=125. Retrieved 2007-01-02.
- ^ "The Seven Year-Old Surgeon". The Sunday Times. http://www.teamfocus.co.uk/cgi-bin/articlefull.pl?id=17. Retrieved 2007-01-02.
