Not all of history’s most significant scientists were college graduates when they began their works. In fact, history is full of scientists who have shaped the world due to their work as teenagers.
If they were disregarded simply because of their age, many things we take for granted today may not exist.
Through their own determination and thirst for knowledge, these teenagers impacted the world far greater than they would realize long after their deaths.
1. Isaac Newton
During Newton’s formative years, it was common place for the young man to develop various devices while attending school. His devotion to studies and high marks in school were impressive to many.
Although his mother attempted to make a farmer of him by removing young Isaac from school, the schoolmaster and his uncle suggested to his mother that he return to school to finish his education.
Isaac Newton attended Cambridge University upon finishing school in 1661. He developed a variety of scientific methods and discoveries including those in optics and colors.
2. Albert Einstein
In his younger years, Albert Einstein had always shown a great interest in mathematics and science. Einstein attended the Swiss Federal Polytechnic examinations in Zurich.
Although his scores were below standard in many of the required subjects, his mathematics and physics skills were exceptionally high.
From there, Albert Einstein attended Aargau Cantonal School in Aarau, Switzerland where he graduated with passing grades in some subjects and receiving the highest grade scale possible in mathematics and physics.
His theories have laid the ground work for many scientists of today and is most notable for the Theory of Relativity.
3. Galileo Galilei
While at the University of Pisa studying for a medical degree at the age of 17, Galileo Galilei became enthralled with how movements of air currents could cause a chandelier to sway in a rhythmic pattern.
Setting up a set of differentiating pendulums, Galileo discovered that regardless of the size difference the pendulums kept time with each other.
The young man changed his degree from medical sciences to mathematics after attending a lecture on geometry. A the age of 22, Galileo published a book on the design of a hydrostatic balance he had invented.
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