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Akrit Jaswal. Akrit Pran Jaswal (born April 23, 1993, Nurpur[1][citation needed]) is an Indian who performed his first surgery at the age of seven.[2] Akrit hopes to someday continue his studies at Harvard University.[2] He has an estimated IQ of 146.[3][citation needed] Akrit went to Britain around the age of 12 to talk about the cure for cancer.

Akrit Jaswal

Early Life[edit] At a very young age, Akrit Jaswal began to illustrate his unusually high intelligence level. Jaswal could speak by the time he was ten months old, and he could also write and read at the age of two. Surgery in 2000[edit] On November 19, 2000, at the age of seven, Jaswal performed his first surgery. Recognition and Fame[edit] Because of his fame and success, Jaswal was accepted into Chandrigarth College when he was twelve years old, making him the youngest person to ever get into a university in India.

However, some have theorized that Jaswal's fame as a child may actually have been harmful to him. Quest for the Cure to Cancer[edit] Sunday Times - The 7-year old Surgeon. Aelita Andre. Aelita Andre (born 9 January 2007[2][3]) is an Australian abstract artist known for her Surrealist painting style and her young age.[4][5] She began to paint when aged nine months, and her work was displayed publicly in a group exhibition shortly after she turned two.[2][6] Her first solo exhibition opened in New York City in June 2011, when she was four years old.[1][6] Life[edit] Andre was born to Australian father Michael Andre and Russian mother Nikka Kalashnikova.[1] As a baby, she often watched her parents, both artists themselves, work on canvases on the floor.[2] She learned to paint before she could walk, several months prior to her first birthday.[2][7] She and her family currently reside in Melbourne.[8] Career[edit] Beginning[edit] Andre's mother, believing her daughter to be a child prodigy, showed some of Andre's paintings to a Melbourne-based art curator when the girl was 22 months old.

Aelita Andre

The Prodigy of Color[edit] Aelita Andre's Website. Kieron Williamson. He has been described as a prodigy,[3] and at his second exhibition in 2009, his paintings sold out in 14 minutes, raising a total of £18,200 for 16 paintings.[4] A subsequent exhibition in Holt in July 2010 saw his paintings all sold within 30 minutes, at a total value of £150,000.[5] The following week, on Friday, 6 August 2010, Williamson revealed on the BBC Norfolk website some of his latest paintings that would be exhibited in 2011.[6] At the beginning of November 2010 the family revealed to the Eastern Daily Press that they might re-locate to Cornwall to further Kieron's painting,[7] but in the event the family bought a new home at Ludham, east of Norwich in Kieron's name, with the proceeds of his art sales.

Kieron Williamson

The Telegraph - Kieron Williamson nets £100,000 in 10 minutes. "We are so grateful to everyone who has supported Kieron, especially in the current economic climate.

The Telegraph - Kieron Williamson nets £100,000 in 10 minutes

" The sale, at the Picturecraft Gallery and Exhibition Centre, was Kieron's fourth and featured watercolour landscapes of the Norfolk countryside near his home and pastels and oils of scenes and landmarks. Buyers paid from £1,250 for his sunset view to £15,595 for his impression of the Suleymaniye mosque in Istanbul. "When our doors opened it was pandemonium in here," said Adrian Hill, managing director of the gallery.

"You see this continual maturity and evolution in Kieron’s paintings. His work is constantly improving and the more he paints, the more he understands his medium. Mr Williamson and his wife Michelle, 38, said their son had shown little interest in painting as a very young child. His official website says was a "typical energetic toddler with a passion for mud and water". "He loved riding his bike and throwing stones into the sea and every available puddle," it states.