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This is a list of people who in childhood (at or before 9) showed abilities in a specific field comparable to those of a highly skilled adult; hence the term child prodigy. Names added should fit this criterion and be properly sourced. Proper sources include respectable newssources, university websites, museum sites, and academic studies that refer to the person as "a prodigy" or describe one as fitting the criteria defined in the article Child prodigy. As a rule self-promotional sites must not be used when adding a name. Image File history File links Broom_icon. ... Childhood (song) Childhood is a broad term usually applied to the phase of development in humans between infancy and adulthood. ... A child prodigy is someone who is a master of one or more skills or arts at an early age. ... A child prodigy is someone who is a master of one or more skills or arts at an early age. ...

Mathematics and science

Mathematics

Mathematicians

• Maria Gaetana Agnesi: Delivered a speech she translated into Latin at age 9.^[1]
• Jean-Philippe Baratier: Said to be well versed in math by age 8, published articles by age 10, joined the Academy at 14, and died before 20.^[2]
• Juan Caramuel y Lobkowitz: He published astronomical tables at age 10.^[3]
• Alexis Clairault: He studied the work of Guillaume de L'Hôpital at 10 and presented a paper at 13.^[4]
• Carl Friedrich Gauss: His potential was noted at seven, and in his teens he unknowingly discovered the already extant Titius-Bode law.^[5]
• William Rowan Hamilton: (Originally a languages prodigy)^[6][7]
• Ruth Lawrence: The youngest student to enter the University of Oxford at age 11.^[8]
• Colin Maclaurin: Entered university at 11, a feat not particularly unusual at the time, but at 14 he defended a thesis concerning ideas at the forefront of contemporary human knowledge.^[9]
• John Von Neumann: A "mental calculator" by age 6 who could tell jokes in classical Greek.^[10][11]
• Blaise Pascal: At 11 or 12 he had secretly worked out the first twenty-three propositions of Euclid on his own.^[12][13]
• Regiomontanus (Johannes Müller)-Studied dialectics at 11.^[14]
• William James Sidis: Corrected E. V. Huntington's mathematics text galleys at age of eight and entered Harvard at 11 where he gave his self-conceived lecture on four dimensional geometry.^[15]
• Terence Tao: At eight he was attending Year 11 classes and scored a 760 on the SAT math section.^[16]
• Norbert Wiener: He entered Tufts at 11.^[17]
• March Tian Boedihardjo: Enrolled to study Maths at Hong Kong Baptist University at age 9 making him the youngest ever university student in Hong Kong.

Portrait of Agnesi by Bianca Milesi Mojon, 1836. ... Johann Philipp Baratier, attended by Athena, goddess of wisdom Jean-Philippe Baratier (also Johann Philipp Baratier; January 19, 1721, Schwabach near Nuremberg – October 5, 1740) was a German scholar. ... Juan Caramuel y Lobkowitz (May 23, 1606 in Madrid – September 8, 1682 in Vigevano) was a Spanish Catholic ecclesiastic and writer. ... Alexis Claude de Clairault (or Clairaut) (May 3, 1713 – May 17, 1765) was a French mathematician and thinker. ... Guillaume de lHôpital Guillaume François Antoine, Marquis de lHôpital (1661 – February 2, 1704) was a French mathematician. ... Johann Carl Friedrich Gauss or Gauß ( ; Latin: ) (30 April 1777 – 23 February 1855) was a German mathematician and scientist who contributed significantly to many fields, including number theory, analysis, differential geometry, geodesy, electrostatics, astronomy, and optics. ... The Titius-Bode law (or Bodes law) is the observation that orbits of planets in the solar system closely follow a simple geometric rule. ... Sir William Rowan Hamilton (August 4, 1805 – September 2, 1865) was an Irish mathematician, physicist, and astronomer who made important contributions to the development of optics, dynamics, and algebra. ... Ruth Elke Lawrence (born August 2, 1971) is an Associate Professor of mathematics at the Einstein Institute of Mathematics, Hebrew University of Jerusalem, and a researcher in knot theory and algebraic topology. ... The University of Oxford (usually abbreviated as Oxon. ... Colin Maclaurin Colin Maclaurin (February, 1698 - June 14, 1746) was a Scottish mathematician. ... For other persons named John Neumann, see John Neumann (disambiguation). ... Blaise Pascal (pronounced ), (June 19, 1623 – August 19, 1662) was a French mathematician, physicist, and religious philosopher. ... Johannes Müller von Königsberg (June 6, 1436 – July 6, 1476), known by his Latin pseudonym Regiomontanus, was an important German mathematician, astronomer and astrologer. ... William James Sidis (April 1, 1898 – July 17, 1944) was an American child prodigy with exceptional mathematical and linguistic abilities. ... Terence Chi-Shen Tao (陶哲軒) (born July 17, 1975, Adelaide, South Australia) is an Australian mathematician working primarily on harmonic analysis, partial differential equations, combinatorics, analytic number theory and representation theory. ... This article or section is not written in the formal tone expected of an encyclopedia article. ... March Tian Boedihardjo (born c. ... ... Hong Kong Baptist University (HKBU) (Traditional Chinese: 香港浸會大學) is a public-funded tertiary institution with Christian education heritage. ...

Mental calculators

Note: Several mathematicians were mental calculators when they were still children. This section is for child prodigies largely or primarily known for calculating skills. It should be noted that mental calculators are sometimes more like savants than they are like child prodigies. They have skills that rarely exist in adults and they may not be truly "mature" in mathematical understanding. Mental calculators are people with a prodigious ability in some area of mental calculation, such as multiplying large numbers together or factoring large numbers. ... Look up savant in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. ...

• Zerah Colburn: At the age of nine he was able to multiply six digit numbers in his head.^[18]
• Shakuntala Devi: Her abilities were first recognized at age 3.^[19]
• Brian Greene:(As an adult he is an important physicist)^[20]
• Truman Henry Safford: At ten years old he could square 18 digit numbers, later in life he was an astronomer.^[21]
• Daniel Tammet: a British autistic mental calculator who can^[22] explain his abilities, recounted pi to its 22,514th digit from memory.

Zerah Colburn (1804-1840) was a famous child prodigy of the 19th century. ... Shakuntala Devi is a calculating prodigy who was born on November 4, 1939 in Bangalore, India. ... Brian Greene (born February 9, 1963), is a theoretical physicist and one of the best-known string theorists. ... In economics, the Herfindahl index is a measure of the size of firms in relationship to the industry and an indicator of the amount of competition among them. ... Truman Henry Safford (1836-1901) was a US calculating prodigy. ... Daniel Paul Tammet (b. ... A boy with autism and his mother Autism refers to a spectrum of disorders, and lies somewhere under the umbrella of a greater encompassing spectrum, that of pervasive developmental disorders that involve the functioning of the brain. ... When a circles diameter is 1, its circumference is π. Pi or π is the ratio of a circles circumference to its diameter in Euclidean geometry, approximately 3. ...

Computer science and engineering

Engineering

• Alia Sabur: 15 year old Doctoral candidate at Drexel University who entered college at 11.^[23]

Alia Sabur (February 22, 1989—) is an American child prodigy. ... Drexel University is an institution of higher learning and research located in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. ...

Physics

• Kim Ung-Yong: Attended university physics courses at age 4, Ph.D in physics before age 15.^[24]
• Song Yoo-geun: Physics prodigy who entered university at age 8.^[25]
• Tathagat Avatar Tulsi: Undergraduate degree at age 10^[26]

Kim Ung-Yong (born March 7, 1963) is a Korean former child prodigy. ... Song Yoo-geun (b. ... Avatar Tulsi Tathagat Avatar Tulsi (born September 9, 1987 in Patna, India) is a scientist by occupation. ...

Mechanical engineering

• Karl Benz: at the age of nine he started at the scientifically oriented Lyzeum, went on to study at the Poly-Technical University under the instruction of Ferdinand Redtenbacher, and at age fifteen he passed the entrance exam for mechanical engineering at the University of Karlsruhe

Karl Benz Karl Friedrich Benz, for whom an alternate French spelling of Carl is used occasionally, (November 25, 1844, Karlsruhe, Germany – April 4, 1929, Ladenburg, Germany) was a German engine designer and mechanical engineer, generally regarded as the inventor of the gasoline-powered automobile. ...

Medicine

• Balamurali Ambati: He graduated from High School at 11, was a college junior by age 12, and a doctor at 17.^[27]
• Maximiliano Arellano: Spoke at a medical university at age 7.
• Avicenna: Memorized the Quran at age ten, studying medicine at 13.^[28]
• Sho Yano: He started college at age 9 and graduated summa cum laude at age 12 from Loyola University Chicago. At 15 he attends the Pritzker School of Medicine^[29]
• Akrit Jaswal: India's youngest university student. He carried out an operation aged 7.^[30][31][32]

Balamurali Ambati, M.D. (born July 29, 1977) was the youngest ever person, according to Guinness Book of Records, to become a doctor. ... Maximiliano Arellano (born ca. ... Ibn Sina (full name AbÅ« ‘AlÄ« al-Husayn ibn ‘Abd Allāh ibn SÄ«nā al-BalkhÄ«; Persian: ), also known as Avicenna) was a Persian [2][3][4] Muslim polymath: a physician, astronomer, alchemist, chemist, logician, mathematician, metaphysician, philosopher, physicist, poet, scientist, theologian, statesman, and soldier. ... The Quran (Arabic al-qurʾān أَلْقُرآن; also transliterated as Quran, Koran, and less commonly Alcoran) is the holy book of Islam. ... Sho Timothy Yano (矢野 祥, born c. ... Latin honors are Latin phrases used to indicate the level of academic distinction with which an academic degree was earned. ... A garden sign welcomes residents and visitors to Rogers Park as home of Loyola University Chicago. ... Wikipedia does not have an article with this exact name. ... Akrit Jaswal (born 23 April 1993) is a child prodigy who has gained fame in his native India as a physician, despite never having attended medical school. ...

Biology and psychology

• Jean Piaget: Published a paper on the albino sparrow at 11, later a psychologist.^[33]

Jean Piaget [] (August 9, 1896 – September 16, 1980) was a Swiss philosopher, natural scientist and developmental psychologist, well known for his work studying children, his theory of cognitive development and for his epistemologic view called genetic epistemology. He created in 1955 the International Centre for Genetic Epistemology in Geneva and...

The Arts

Acting/directing

Note: This section is mostly limited to child actors or directors who were respected enough to be nominated or win awards against adult competitors and were declared prodigies. It also includes a few actors from eras predating film who were declared theatrical prodigies. This section must be limited in this way because being even an award-winning child actor is not, in itself, prodigious. (See Academy Juvenile Award for why being an award winning child actor does not equate to being competitive with adults.) This award is officially called the Honorary Juvenile Award. ...

• William Henry West Betty: A sensation as a boy doing Voltaire and Shakespeare roles.^[34][35]
• Dakota Fanning: Since her breakthrough role in I Am Sam in 2001, has won numerous awards, and is currently the youngest person ever to be nominated for a Screen Actors Guild award. In her performance in the 2005 film Hide and Seek, many said that her performance equaled (or even surpassed), the performance of veteran actor Robert De Niro.
• Hana Makhmalbaf: (director at age 8, currently 18)^[36][37]
• Tatum O'Neal: Won the Best Supporting Actress Oscar at age 10 for her 1973 role in Paper Moon, making her the youngest person ever to win a regularly awarded Oscar.^[38]
• Haley Joel Osment: Nominee for the Best Supporting Actor Oscar at age 11.^[39][40]
• Anna Paquin: She won the Best Supporting Actress Oscar at age 11.^[41][42]
• Shirley Temple: At 5 years old she proved a spontaneous talent as an actress in Hollywood; she was also a great tap dancer. When she was 7 she received a special Academy Award.^[43]
• Ernest Truex: He did Shakespeare at age 6.^[44][45]
• Elijah Wood: Began acting at age 7, known for his incredibly mature performances in adult themed movies and additional off-screen maturity. Cited by some as the most gifted child actor in history.

Contemporary engraving of William Henry West Betty by James Northcote, R.A. (1746-1831) William Henry West Betty (September 13, 1791 - August 24, 1874) was a British actor. ... Dakota Fanning (born Hannah Dakota Fanning on February 23, 1994) is an American actress. ... This article does not cite any references or sources. ... The Screen Actors Guild (S.A.G.) is the labor union representing over 120,000 film actors in the United States. ... This article does not cite any references or sources. ... Robert De Niro (born August 17, 1943) is a two-time Academy Award and Golden Globe-winning American film actor, director, and producer. ... Hana Makhmalbaf is the younger sister of filmmaker Samira Makhmalbaf and daughter of filmaker and filmteacher Mohsen Makhmalbaf. ... Tatum Beatrice ONeal (born November 5, 1963 in Los Angeles, California) is an Academy Award-winning American actress best known for her film work as a child actress in the 1970s. ... The Academy Award for Best Performance by an Actress in a Supporting Role is one of the awards given to actresses working in the motion picture industry by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences; nominations are made by Academy members who are actors and actresses. ... For the song by James Blunt, see 1973 (song). ... Paper Moon is an American motion picture comedy that was released in 1973 and was directed by Peter Bogdanovich. ... Haley Joel Osment (born April 10, 1988) is an Academy Award-nominated American actor. ... The Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor is one of the awards given to male actors working in the motion picture industry by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences; nominations are made by Academy members who are actors and actresses. ... Anna Helene Paquin (born July 24, 1982) is an Academy Award-winning and Golden Globe Award-nominated New Zealand actress who was born in Canada. ... The Academy Award for Best Performance by an Actress in a Supporting Role is one of the awards given to actresses working in the motion picture industry by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences; nominations are made by Academy members who are actors and actresses. ... Shirley Jane Temple (born April 23, 1928) is an American former child actress. ... ... Man tap dancing. ... Although he never won an Oscar for any of his movie performances, the comedian Bob Hope received two honorary Oscars for his contributions to cinema. ... Ernest Truex(Born September 19, 1889, died June 26, 1973 in Fallbrook, California) was an American character actor of stage and film. ... Elijah Jordan Wood (born January 28, 1981) is an American actor. ...

Dance

• Wade Robson: First appeared on tour with Michael Jackson at the age of five; by 11 was teaching dance classes; choreographed major tours for artists such as Immature, Britney Spears and N'Sync beginning at age 14.

Wade Jeremy Robson (born September 17, 1982) was born in Australia and has become one of the most successful pop choreographers and producers. ... IMx, formerly known as Immature, is an American hip-hop and R&B boy band. ... Britney Jean Spears (born December 2, 1981) is a Grammy Award-winning[1] American pop singer, dancer, actress, author and songwriter. ... *NSYNC is a five-part pop music vocal group, specifically a boy band, formed in Orlando, Florida, USA. The group members are James Lance Bass, Joshua Scott Chasez (JC), Joseph Anthony Fatone Junior (Joey), Christopher Alan Kirkpatrick (Chris), and Justin Randall Timberlake. ...

Music

See List of music prodigies. As a novelty several children have become popular as singers or musicians. ...

Literature

• William Cullen Bryant: Published at ten, had a book of political satire poems at 13.^[46]
• Thomas Chatterton: Composing poems that would make him famous at age 12.^[47][48]
• Lucretia Maria Davidson: By 11 had written some poems of note and before her death at 16 received praise as a writer.^[49]
• H. P. Lovecraft: recited poetry at age 2 and wrote long poems at age 5^[50][51]
• Mattie Stepanek: Successful writer when he died at 13.^[52]
• Lope de Vega: wrote his first play at the age of 12.^[53][54] Could read Latin at 5 and was translating Latin verse at ten.
• Henriett Seth-F.: Hungarian autistic prodigy, wrote her first poem at the age of 9. She has also been a painter from an early age.^[55][56]

William Cullen Bryant William Cullen Bryant (November 3, 1794 - June 12, 1878) an American Romantic poet, journalist, political adviser, and homeopath, was born in Cummington, Massachusetts, the second son of Peter Bryant, a doctor and later a state legislator, and Sarah Snell; the William Cullen Bryant Homestead, his boyhood home... Thomas Chatterton Thomas Chatterton (November 20, 1752 – August 24, 1770) was an English poet and forger of pseudo-medieval poetry. ... Lucretia Maria Davidson (September 27, 1808 - August 27, 1825) was an American poet of the early 19th century. ... Howard Phillips Lovecraft (August 20, 1890 – March 15, 1937) was an American author from Providence, Rhode Island of fantasy, horror and science fiction. ... Mattie Stepanek Matthew Mattie Joseph Thaddeus Stepanek (July 17, 1990 – June 22, 2004) was an American poet and advocate. ... Lope de Vega Lope de Vega (also Félix Lope de Vega Carpio or Lope Félix de Vega Carpio) (25 November 1562 – 27 August 1635) was a Spanish playwright and poet. ... To meet Wikipedias quality standards, this article or section may require cleanup. ... A boy with autism and his mother Autism refers to a spectrum of disorders, and lies somewhere under the umbrella of a greater encompassing spectrum, that of pervasive developmental disorders that involve the functioning of the brain. ...

Visual arts

• Akiane Kramarik: 12 year old Christian artist who has been featured on television and in museums since age 10.^[57]
• Jan Lievens: Painter apprenticed at 8 and an independent artist at 12.^[58]
• John Everett Millais: Painter who entered the Royal Academy at eleven.^[59][60]
• Alexandra Nechita: Painter with solo exhibit at age eight.^[61]
• Dylan Scott Pierce: Wildlife art illustrator at 10.^[62]
• Pablo Picasso: His Picador is from age eight, see List of Picasso artworks 1889-1900.
• Stephen Wiltshire: An example of autistic artist child prodigies, he is an English artist^[63][64]
• Scott Hubbard: Creator of complex and Fibonacci pattern styled tapestries at age 5. Awarded American Weaver Scholarship.
• Zhu Da: Prodigy poet by age 7 and later a painter.^[65][66]

Akiane Kramarik (born July 9, 1994) is an American artistic prodigy and poet. ... Magdelana by Jan Lievens Jan Lievens (1607–1674) was a painter and an excellent visual artist from Leiden. ... Sir John Everett Millais Sir John Everett Millais, 1st Baronet, PRA (June 8, 1829 – August 13, 1896) was a British painter and illustrator who was one of founders of the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood. ... Alexandra Nechita is a painter who was born in Romania on August 27, 1985 but she grew up in California, USA. She had her first solo exhibition at the age of eight in a public library in the Los Angeles area. ... Categories: Stub | 1987 births ... “Picasso” redirects here. ... // Le picador Le picador (1889-1890) (Oil on wood, 24 x 19 cm, The Picasso Estate) Pigeons (1890) (Lead pencil on paper, 11 x 22 cm, Museu Picasso) Course de taureaux et colombes (1890-1892) (Pencil on paper, 13. ... Stephen Wiltshire Stephen Wiltshire: Times Square - oil on canvas Tokyo skyline Stephen Wiltshire MBE, (born 1974) is an accomplished architectural artist who has been diagnosed with autistic spectrum disorder. ... A boy with autism and his mother Autism refers to a spectrum of disorders, and lies somewhere under the umbrella of a greater encompassing spectrum, that of pervasive developmental disorders that involve the functioning of the brain. ... Categories: Artist stubs | 1626 births | 1705 deaths | Chinese painters | Calligraphers ...

Humanities

Academics

• Michael Kearney: Several degrees with the first being earned at age 10. He is currently noted as a "17 year old professor."^[67][68]
• Gregory R. Smith: He entered college at age 10 and was first nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize at age 12.^[69][70]

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Business

• Y.Siddharth Reddy: Youngest-ever CEO of a Public Limited Company^[71]

Law/philosophy

• Jeremy Bentham: He studied Latin at age 3 and entered The Queen's College, Oxford at 12.^[72][73]
• Saul Kripke: philosopher by 12 and invited to apply for a teaching post at Harvard while still in high school.^[74][75]
• John Stuart Mill: Knew several dead languages by age eight and studied scholastic philosophy at 12.^[76][77]
• Eugene Volokh: Earned a BS in math/computer science from UCLA when he was 15. Proceeded to earn a JD, and clerk for judge Alex Kozinski and justice Sandra Day O'Connor before becoming a professor at the age of 26. ^[78]

Jeremy Bentham (IPA: or ) (February 15, 1748 O.S. (February 26, 1748 N.S.) – June 6, 1832) was an English jurist, philosopher, and legal and social reformer. ... College name The Queens College Collegii Reginae Named after Queen Philippa of Hainault Established 1341 Sister College Pembroke College Provost Sir Alan Budd JCR President Vishal Mashru Undergraduates 350 MCR President Matthias Range Graduates 133 Homepage Boatclub High Street entrance to Queens College from the main quad. ... Saul Aaron Kripke (born in November, 1940, Long Beach, New York) is an American philosopher and logician now emeritus from Princeton and professor of philosophy at CUNY Graduate Center. ... John Stuart Mill (20 May 1806 – 8 May 1873), British philosopher, political economist civil servant, and Member of Parliament, was an influential liberal thinker of the 19th century. ... Eugene Volokh Eugene Volokh (born February 29, 1968) is an American legal commentator and law professor at the UCLA School of Law (located on the campus of the University of California, Los Angeles). ... Judge Alex Kozinski Judge Alex Kozinski (born July 23, 1950) is a judge in the United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit and a popular essayist. ... Sandra Day OConnor (born March 26, 1930) is an American jurist who served as the first female Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States from 1981 to 2006. ...

Linguistics/translation

• Jean-François Champollion: He knew several dead languages at age 10 and at 16 he read an important paper at the Grenoble Academy.^[79][80]
• Thomas Young (scientist): More noted as a physicist, he was a polyglot at a young age who worked on translating Demotic Egyptian^[81][82][83]
• Émilie du Châtelet: translated ancient Greek and other ancient texts in her late childhood. Later famous for translations of Newton's works, with her own additional commentary and analysis, into French.

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Sports

• Fu Mingxia: A diver, referred to as a child prodigy by at least two sources,^[84][85] and was an Olympic gold medalist at 13.
• Ronnie O'Sullivan: snooker player. Scored his first century break aged 10,^[86] his first maximum at 15 and was youngest ever winner of a ranking event at 17.
• Michelle Wie: Qualified for the USGA Women's Amateur Public Links at 10 and won the same event at 13, making her the youngest person both to qualify for and win a USGA adult national championship.^[87]
• Tiger Woods: He first won the Optimist International Junior tournament at age 8, playing in the 9-10 age group since there was no group for 8-year-olds at the time.^[88][89]

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Legendary

This is for historic children who have become representatives of the "prodigy" phenomenon, inspiring literature on it, but whose actual accomplishments have not been firmly established due to the poor sourcing or records of their era.

• Gaon of Vilna: A historically significant rabbi called a prodigy in youth and who has been said to have had a variety of skills by age 11.^[90]
• Christian Friedrich Heinecken: The book The Life, Deeds, Travels and Death of the Child of Lubeck was based on his life and he was an influence on The Hampdenshire Wonder. He allegedly "knew by heart the principal incidents in the Pentateuch" by age 1.^[91]
• Okita Sōji (1842 or 1844-1868): Prodigy of kenjutsu (swordsmanship), who defeated a kenjutsu master by age 12 and became a master of kenjutsu and a school head (Jukutou) at 18 or so. He died from tuberculosis in his mid-twenties.

Elijah Ben Solomon, the Vilna Gaon The Vilna Gaon (April 23, 1720 – October 9, 1797) was a prominent Jewish rabbi, Talmud scholar, and Kabbalist. ... For the town in Italy, see Rabbi, Italy. ... Christian Friedrich Heinecken (1721-1725), a German, who was known as the Infant of Lübeck, from his birthplace, is said to have talked within a few hours after his birth. ... The Hampdenshire Wonder is a 1911 science fiction novel by J. D. Beresford. ... Look up Pentateuch in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. ... Okita Sōji (沖田 総司), (1842 or 1844 - July 19, 1868) was the captain of the first unit of the Shinsengumi, a special police force in Kyoto during the late shogunate period. ... 1842 was a common year starting on Saturday (see link for calendar). ... Jan. ... Year 1868 (MDCCCLXVIII) was a leap year starting on Wednesday (link will display the full calendar) of the Gregorian Calendar (or a leap year starting on Monday of the 12-day slower Julian calendar). ... This article includes a list of works cited or a list of external links, but its sources remain unclear because it lacks in-text citations. ... Swordsmanship refers to the skills of a swordsman, a person versed in the art of the sword. ... Tuberculosis (abbreviated as TB for tubercle bacillus) is a common and deadly infectious disease caused by mycobacteria, mainly Mycobacterium tuberculosis. ...

See also

• Chess prodigy
• List of people youngest in their field

Chess prodigies are children who play chess so well that they are able to beat Masters and even Grandmasters, often at a very young age. ... List of people youngest in their field is a list of people that, although not prodigies, did manage to be youngest in their respective fields. ...

References

• Gifted Children: Myths and Realities by Ellen Winner: ISBN 0-465-01759-2
• Children Above 180 IQ: Standford-Binet Origin and Development by Leta Stetter Hollingworth: ISBN 0-405-06467-5
• Child Prodigies and Exceptional Early Achievers by John Radford: ISBN 0-02-925635-6

Web sources

Project Gutenberg, abbreviated as PG, is a volunteer effort to digitize, archive and distribute cultural works. ...

External links

• The Origins and Ends of Giftedness by Ellen Winner
• Time Asia
• History of the education of gifted children by Ellen Summers