Posted on Mar 27, 2017
Harvard Thinks It’s Found the Next Einstein — and She’s 23
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She's one smart doctoral candidate!
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Harvard University believes the world’s next Einstein is among us — and she’s a millennial.
At age 23, Sabrina Gonzalez Pasterski is already one of the most well-known and accomplished physicists in the U.S.
The Cuban-American Chicago native graduated from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in just three years with a 5.0-grade point average, the highest possible, and is currently a Ph.D. candidate at Harvard with full academic freedom — meaning she can pursue her own study on her own terms without staff interference.
Pasterski first attracted the attention of the scientific and academic community after single-handedly building her own single-engine airplane in 2008, at age 14, and documenting the process on YouTube.
MIT professors Allen Haggerty and Earll Murman saw the video and were astonished. “Our mouths were hanging open after we looked at it,” Haggerty recalls. “Her potential is off the charts.”
At age 16, she piloted the aircraft herself over Lake Michigan, becoming the youngest person ever to fly their own plane.
“I couldn’t believe it,” recalls Peggy Udden, an executive secretary at MIT. “Not only because she was so young, but a girl.”
Pasterski had first flown a plane at age 9, an experience she casually relayed to a teacher at her public high school, the Illinois Mathematics and Science Academy in Aurora. The teacher replied: “That’s nice, but what have you done lately?”
“That’s become my mantra ever since,” Pasterski told the Chicago Tribune in a 2016 interview. “That’s nice, but what have you done lately?”
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Harvard University believes the world’s next Einstein is among us — and she’s a millennial.
At age 23, Sabrina Gonzalez Pasterski is already one of the most well-known and accomplished physicists in the U.S.
The Cuban-American Chicago native graduated from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in just three years with a 5.0-grade point average, the highest possible, and is currently a Ph.D. candidate at Harvard with full academic freedom — meaning she can pursue her own study on her own terms without staff interference.
Pasterski first attracted the attention of the scientific and academic community after single-handedly building her own single-engine airplane in 2008, at age 14, and documenting the process on YouTube.
MIT professors Allen Haggerty and Earll Murman saw the video and were astonished. “Our mouths were hanging open after we looked at it,” Haggerty recalls. “Her potential is off the charts.”
At age 16, she piloted the aircraft herself over Lake Michigan, becoming the youngest person ever to fly their own plane.
“I couldn’t believe it,” recalls Peggy Udden, an executive secretary at MIT. “Not only because she was so young, but a girl.”
Pasterski had first flown a plane at age 9, an experience she casually relayed to a teacher at her public high school, the Illinois Mathematics and Science Academy in Aurora. The teacher replied: “That’s nice, but what have you done lately?”
“That’s become my mantra ever since,” Pasterski told the Chicago Tribune in a 2016 interview. “That’s nice, but what have you done lately?”
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Harvard Thinks It’s Found the Next Einstein — and She’s 23
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If she can build and fly her own plane at 14, just imagine what type of breakthroughs she can accomplish with more knowledge and time.
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She graduated Magna Cum Laude...I graduated OH LAUDE...translation Oh Lordy just pass him and get him on his way!!!!
I can't wait to see what this incredible mind will produce.
I can't wait to see what this incredible mind will produce.
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MSgt Stephen Council
Lt Col Scott Shuttleworth I feel you brother. They graduated me from high school based on the fact that I was a cross country and track champion. I didn't learn to actually take notes until years later, and it served me well in college. But, I wont pretend to be on this mathletes level!
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Holy cow, a GPA of 5.0?!?! I'm lucky if I can walk and chew bubble gum at the same time. LOL
Great to see all of her successes!
Great to see all of her successes!
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