10 Youngest Phd Holders In The World
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19 May 2025
Akshay Venkatesh
Age-20
Princeton University
Akshay's research included counting, equidistribution problems in automorphic forms and number theory
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Erik Demaine
Age-20
University of Waterloo
Erik worked on computational origami and also decoded an ancient Incan language
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Charles Homer Haskins
Age-19
Johns Hopkins University
Haskins graduated with his PhD in 1890 and was appointed as the professor of history at Harvard in 1902.
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Juliet Beni
Age-19
University of California
Juliet Beni completed her PhD in Psychology and her goal is to be a medical doctor
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Sho Yano
Age-18
University of Chicago's Pritzker School of Medicine
Yano completed his PhD in molecular genetics and cell biology
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Norbert Wiener
Age-17
Harvard University
Wiener earned his doctorate in mathematics and became a professor at Harvard University
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Ruth Lawrence
Age-17
University of Oxford
Lawrence completed her DPhil in mathematics and is current teaching at Einstein Institute of Mathematics
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Balamurali Ambati
Age-17
Ambati started doing calculus at age 4 and received his PhD from Medical College of Georgia.
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Kim Ung-Yong
Age-15
Ung Yong had a high IQ of 210 and finished his doctorate at age 15 from Colorade State Univesity.
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Karl Witte
Age-13
At the age of 9, Witte spoke German, French, Italian. The German system of higher education being shorter in duration led to Witte completing his doctorate at age 13.
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