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Top 8 youngest professors in the world: teaching at university at the age of 18

In the world, there are many people who have graduated from college before they entered their teens and become professors, teaching at university level to people of the same age. We invite you to take a look at the 10 youngest professors in the world today and see who they are:

1. Alia Sabur

Date of birth: February 22, 1989
Age when becoming a professor: 18 years 11 months 28 days
University teaching start date: February 19, 2008
Teaching location: Konkuk University in Seoul, Korea
Major: Faculty of Advanced Fusion Technology
Hometown: New York City, USA
Alia Sabur was promoted to professor just 3 days before her 19th birthday, making her the youngest university professor in the world. She also won the title of youngest professor in the world recognized by the Guinness Book of World Records and currently no one has broken Alia's record.

In addition, Alia Sabur also holds the position of the 6th youngest university graduate in the world. She graduated from Stony Brook University in New York, USA at the age of 14, majoring in Applied Mathematics. At the age of 17, she earned a master's degree from Drexel University (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania) in Materials Science & Engineering.

However, Professor Alia Sabur only taught at Konkuk University for 1 year, then she returned to the US and worked at the US Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) as an intellectual property lawyer.

Besides being good at studying, Alia is also quite good at music and martial arts, she has a black belt in Taekwondo and plays the clarinet in the New York Youth Symphony.
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2. Colin Maclaurin

Born: February 1698, died June 14, 1746
Age when becoming professor: 19 years old
Year university teaching began: 1717
Place of teaching: Aberdeen University
Major: Mathematics
Hometown: Kilmodan, Argyll, Scotland

Colin Maclaurin held the record for the world's youngest professor for three centuries, until Alia Sabur broke his record. He was once a math prodigy, entering college at the age of 11. He participated in the entrance exam that lasted 10 consecutive days, won the top position in advanced mathematics and became a professor at the age of 19.

At the age of 21, he met famous physicist Isaac Newton and was invited by Newton to teach at the University of Edinburgh. Newton actively paid Colin's salary out of his own pocket.
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3. Erik Demaine

Date of birth: February 28, 1981
Age when becoming professor: 20 years old
Year of starting university teaching: 2001
Place of teaching: MIT (Massachusetts Institute of Technology)
Major: Computer Science
Hometown: Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada
Erik was considered a prodigy at the age of 7. Instead of being sent to study all subjects, he was taught by his father himself and sent to travel across North America. Erik "did not go to school" until he was 12 years old. He went straight to Dalhousie University (Canada) and graduated at the age of 14, then he received a master's degree from Waterloo University (USA).

Erik worked as a teaching assistant for a professor at MIT since 2001. In 2011, he officially taught classes and became a full-time professor. Currently Erik is still working at MIT. In the school's history description, Erik Demaine's name is still solemnly noted as the youngest professor in MIT history.

One of the specialties that Erik is best at is Computational Origami, also known as Paper Folding Geometry. He published a book called Geometric Origami Algorithms in 2007.
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4. Charles Homer Haskins

Date of birth: December 21, 1870 - died May 14, 1937
Age when becoming professor: 20 years old
Year university teaching began: 1890
Place of teaching: University of Wisconsin (USA)
Major: History
Hometown: Meadville, Pennsylvania, USA
Charles was a famous child prodigy in the late 19th century. Before he was 10 years old, he was fluent in Latin and Greek. At the age of 19, he both studied for his doctorate at John Hopkins University and taught at the school.
As soon as he graduated with his doctorate at the age of 20, he returned to work at the University of Wisconsin.

At the age of 22, Haskins worked as a full-time professor at the school, and also held the position of president of the European History Association at the University of Wisconsin.

From 1902 - 1931, he worked at Harvard University, where he developed a graduate research program for history, which is still applied by Harvard today.
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5. Terence Tao (Terry Tao)

Date of birth: July 17, 1975
Age when becoming professor: 21 years old
Year of starting university teaching: 1996
Place of teaching: University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA)
Major: Mathematics
Hometown: Adelaide, Australia
Terry Tao was quite famous in the field of mathematics when he was young. At the age of 9, he solved advanced university-level mathematics. In 1992, Terry received a Fulbright doctoral research scholarship. He graduated with a doctorate in 1996 at Princeton University and began teaching. In 1999, he became a full-time professor at the school, honored as the youngest professor. in the history of UCLA.


Terry Tao won the Fields Medal in 2006.
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6. Stephen Wolfram

Date of birth: August 29, 1959
Age when becoming professor: 21 years old
Year of starting university teaching: 1981
Place of teaching: Caltech (California Institute of Technology)
Major: Physics, Mathematics, Computer Science
Hometown: London, UK
Contrary to being considered a prodigy, when he was in school, Stephen Wolfram was considered by his teachers to be a poor student because he could not do elementary math. Actually, Stephen is not interested in basic calculation because it is too simple and boring. He began to excel when approaching advanced calculus and physics.

By the age of 14, he had published 3 books on Particle Physics. At the age of 15, he began researching Quantum Physics and published scientific research in peer-reviewed journals (with the participation of industry experts).

At the age of 18, Stephen entered Caltech and graduated at the age of 21. His excellent performance led the school to invite him to stay and teach at the age of 21.

A few years later, Stephen left Caltech and opened his own company, Wolfram Research Inc., specializing in producing computational software, one of the famous products being Wolfram Mathematica software.
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7. Charles Fefferman

Date of birth: April 18, 1949
Age when becoming professor: 22 years old
Year of starting university teaching: 1971
Place of teaching: University of Chicago
Major: Mathematics
Hometown: Washington D.C (USA)
Charles got introduced to fourth grade math after asking his father about how rockets work. He was taught calculus by his father and learned how to fluently solve calculus in just a few days. He entered university at the age of 14 and published a scientific research article also at the age of 14.

Charles Fefferman is considered one of the youngest full-time professors because most of those mentioned above began their undergraduate teaching careers as teaching assistants. He won the Fields Medal in 1978.
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8. Murray Gell-Mann

Date of birth: September 15, 1929 - died May 24, 2019
Age when becoming professor: 23 years old
Year of starting university teaching: 1952
Place of starting teaching: Urbana-Champaign University, Illinois
Major: Physics
Hometown: New York City, USA
Murray Gell-Mann entered Yale University at age 14 and earned a bachelor's degree in physics there. At the age of 22, he received his doctorate from MIT and became a visiting professor in Urbana-Champaign in 1952 and 1953. In 1955, he returned to work at Caltech, and in 1969 he won the Nobel Prize for his research on elementary particles. and gave names to subatomic particles.

He is the co-founder of the Santa Fe Institute in New Mexico, one of the leading institutes in physics today.
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