Great Achievements by Teenagers

Teenagers throughout history have have had many great achievements in the fields of art, culture, science and technology. This may be because they are able to think in new and innovative ways, or their thinking is not hidebound by discredited nostrums; it may be attributable to great teachers and great schooling - including homeschooling. It may simply be the emergence of God-given talent at an early age.

Achievements, listed by age at which they were made

• 7 - Yehudi Menuhin gives his first solo violin performance with the San Francisco Symphony in 1923
• 8 - Pablo Picasso paints his "Picador"
• 8 - Frederic Chopin plays his first public piano performance, having already authored two polonaises (G minor and B flat major) at age 7.
• 12 - Blaise Pascal had secretly worked out the first twenty-three propositions of Euclid by himself.
• 13 - Joan of Arc heard the heavenly voices that prompted her to lead France to victory in the Hundred Years War
• 14 - chess-player Bobby Fischer became an International Grandmaster
• 14 - Mozart wrote the opera, "Mitridate Rè di Ponto"
• 15 - Louis Braille invented the Braille system
• 15 - Karl Benz
• 15 - Christopher Paolini writes the first draft of his Eragon trilogy which is published when he is 19.
• 16 - Jean-François Champollion, can speak a dozen languages and delivers a paper on the Coptic language to the Grenoble Academy. By 20, he can speak another 13 languages and at 22 he deciphers the Rosetta Stone.
• 18 - Mary Shelley writes Frankenstein (The Modern Prometheus) - it is only published when she is 21, however.
• <20 - Carl Friedrich Gauss makes his first mathematical discoveries, which will lead to the completion of "Disquisitiones Arithmeticae", his magnum opus, at the age of 21.

External Links

• Top 10 Child Prodigies

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