Michael Kearney
Michael Kevin Kearney ( born January 18, 1984 in Honolulu) is a former child prodigy from the USA. Since 2006, he has a PhD in biochemistry and now works as a university lecturer at Vanderbilt University in Tennessee.
Life
Early phase
During her pregnancy, the Japanese- Cassidy Kearney suffered from anorexia and blood poisoning. Therefore, predicted their doctors that their child probably mentally retarded would come into the world. They also had very high blood pressure, which is why she was from the 5th to the 7th month of pregnancy in the hospital. Her husband, Kevin worked for the U.S. Navy and was at that time just on a minesweeper in the Indian Ocean. Michael came at 7 months as born prematurely. With five months, he spoke in short grammatically correct sentences and began to be interested in video games, who played his father in the arcade. The parents moved from Hawaii to San Diego in Southern California to where his maternal grandparents lived.
Kindergarten and school
The enrollment or admission to kindergarten was a problem. State schools were not allowed to take children under 5 years. The private Spring Valley Montessori School in Tacoma (Washington), where the family had moved for employment reasons, wanted to protect against this supposedly overambitious parents before him. In your opinion, he was three years old too young for school. Read by Michael demonstrations were dismissed with the accusation of memorization Lernes and disbelief. He was eventually adopted in Montessori, but taken from his parents back from school, as a teacher only after several months stunned the mother pointed out that her child could read already.
At age four, he attended the University of San Francisco in the Child Development Center on his first IQ test - the Stanford - Binet LM - in part, reaching the maximum value of this test of 168 The test is, however, designed for six year olds and not for four year olds.
The family was now living in San Francisco, the father left the navy to help in the classroom. Michael has been largely informed homeschooling program from its mother in a special Oak Meadows and was the high school from home with six years to complete ( record ) by making the class final exam in fast forward. The last final exam, he graduated with a grade of "A-".
Junior College and Universities
He then studied at the community college in Santa Rosa as an undergraduate geology and made with 8 years of graduating with an Associate Degree ( record ). His mother, who had also enrolled, completed his notes, because Kearney's psychomotor skills equivalent to those of his peers. In addition, he and his sister suffer from Agrafie.
On June 5, 1994, he graduated with 10 years at the University of South Alabama his studies, anthropology with 3.6 average and cum laude. Again, he was then the youngest man who had completed a graduate degree, the title of Bachelor is usually for undergraduates in this subject is not.
He then studied biochemistry at the Middle Tennessee State University. His thesis he wrote at the age of 14 years on the growth of cancer cells ( Kinetic Isotope Effects of Thymidine phosphorylase ). This former record as the youngest postgraduate broke now the Indians Tathagat Avatar Tulsi (12 years).
He then studied computer science at Vanderbilt University, where he completed his second master's degree at 18. He now works there as a lecturer. In 2006 he received his doctorate in biochemistry at the Middle Tennessee State University.
In November 2006 he won $ 1 million in the quiz show " Goldrush ".