[SoNottingH]

This kid is really amazing - I wonder what he'll be doing when he's 18?? He helped his father discover the atomic structure of a type of crystal called approximants, whatever that means.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-18302158

[zara55]

Amazing. It was like watching some strange clip from Wallander only better. I like his hair, he is cute, I want to meet him in 10 years time haha.

[PrinceyJ]

Virgin for life.

Jokes, seriously though, it doesn't sound as if he's some prodigy; he just came to the problem with a clear head and solved it.

[pbsjohnz]

(Original post by SoNottingH)
I wonder what he'll be doing when he's 18??

Getting drunk.



but yeah that's pretty amazing!

[MancStudent098]

What did he actually contribute to solving the problem? Maybe his dad just thought it would be nice to stick his son's name on a paper?

As an aside I'm pretty sure the kid's mum is also a chem professor.

[jaklargerne]

When I read the title I knew he would be at least half-Asian. Spot on!

[Sagacious]

Please, he isn't a genius.

Gauss was a genius.

[Bobifier]

I find this tremendously unlikely. My mother childminds and sometimes she makes buns. While she's making buns, she puts the children on a stool next to her and they play with the mixture a bit and at the end she tells them they helped to make buns. I can't help but feel that this is something of a similar scenario, particularly since they refer to the boy's help via his skill at sudokus - sudoku is a trivial logic exercise and as soon as the professor saw any kind of link between his research and a similar exercise he could almost certainly have got a computer to do it for him. If I were a professor, I would not at all feel bad about putting my son's name on a research paper for something like this, so all things considered I am skeptical that this boy's influence over the solution to the problem was as great as the media would like to make out.

[Indo-Chinese Food]

he looks mixed heritiage probably half asian/oriental in terms of ethnicity, of which there are numerous such child prodigies. I think the youngest ever Phd holder is asian

[kopite493]

tony stark?

[Tudball]

Another one?
And now he'll drift off into obscurity.

[DeathByBSOD]

[OFF-TOPIC]

If this Article originated on the BBC: Its true all true! kids a genius! =O

If this Article originated on the DM: Its BS, father stuck his sons name on the sheet....=1

[ON TOPIC]

cool story, well, can he do my Chem exam for me pls!

[zara55]

(Original post by Tudball)
Another one?
And now he'll drift off into obscurity.

It will be a good-looking, smart obscurity.

[Tudball]

(Original post by zara55)
It will be a good-looking, smart obscurity.

Nope. I watched the video with mild interest, and immediately forgot about it afterwards. Nothing good-looking or smart about that.

[SoNottingH]

(Original post by Tudball)
Nope. I watched the video with mild interest, and immediately forgot about it afterwards. Nothing good-looking or smart about that.

You are more boring and obscure than he is.

[Tudball]

(Original post by SoNottingH)
You are more boring and obscure than he is.

I should hope so. I'm not even on television.

[paniking_and_not_revising]

Genius or not, he's more intelligent than myself

Give me a puzzle and I'll have a panic attack!

[Ray Bradbury]

Genius?

Naah....can't even talk English.










































No I can't talk Swedish, before you ask. :~)

[Alpharius]

Not a genius.

What will he be doing at 18? Getting high on drugs.

[Ethic811W]

More like grand-father; rather than his father.