Akrit Jaswal
The Seven Year-Old Surgeon
Akrit Jaswal is a young Indian who has been called the worlds
smartest boy and its easy to see why. His IQ is 146 and is
considered the smartest person his age in India a country of
more than a billion people. Akrit came to public attention when in
2000 he performed his first medical procedure at his family home.
He was seven. His patient a local girl who could not afford a
doctor was eight. Her hand had been burnt in a fire, causing her fingers to
close into a tight fist that wouldnt 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.
He focused his phenomenal intelligence on medicine and 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 .
(source:- wondrefulinfo)
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