Harvard University believes the world’s next Einstein is among us — and she’s a millennial.

[OddTrader]

Harvard University believes the world’s next Einstein is among us — and she’s a millennial.

At age 23, Sabrina Gonzalez Pasterski is already one of the most well-known and accomplished physicists in the U.S.

The Cuban-American Chicago native graduated from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in just three years with a 5.0-grade point average, the highest possible, and is currently a Ph.D. candidate at Harvard with full academic freedom — meaning she can pursue her own study on her own terms without staff interference.

Pasterski first attracted the attention of the scientific and academic community after single-handedly building her own single-engine airplane in 2008, at age 14, and documenting the process on YouTube.

MIT professors Allen Haggerty and Earll Murman saw the video and were astonished. “Our mouths were hanging open after we looked at it,” Haggerty recalls. “Her potential is off the charts.”

At age 16, she piloted the aircraft herself over Lake Michigan, becoming the youngest person ever to fly their own plane. She's already received job offers from NASA.

 

[speedo]

I wasn't aware that Harvard thought as a single unit.

 

[OddTrader]

I wasn't aware that Harvard thought as a single unit.

* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sabrina_Gonzalez_Pasterski

* Sabrina Gonzalez Pasterski
Harvard's Center for the Fundamental Laws of Nature
http://physicsgirl.com/


* 17 Surprising Facts About Millennial Physics Phenom Sabrina ... - Inc.
https://www.inc.com/.../17-surprising-facts-about-millennial-physics-phenom-sabrina-pasterski.html
8 Feb 2016 ... Stephen Hawking follows her research and she flies planes in her spare time. Who is Sabrina Pasterski?

 

[speedo]

* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sabrina_Gonzalez_Pasterski

* Sabrina Gonzalez Pasterski
Harvard's Center for the Fundamental Laws of Nature
http://physicsgirl.com/


* 17 Surprising Facts About Millennial Physics Phenom Sabrina ... - Inc.
https://www.inc.com/.../17-surprising-facts-about-millennial-physics-phenom-sabrina-pasterski.html
8 Feb 2016 ... Stephen Hawking follows her research and she flies planes in her spare time. Who is Sabrina Pasterski?

I have no doubt that she is brilliant but academic institutions are given to jealous and political jostling.

 

[OddTrader]

I have no doubt that she is brilliant but academic institutions are given to jealous and political jostling.

" https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sabrina_Gonzalez_Pasterski
Gonzalez Pasterski named among her scientific heroes Leon Lederman, Dudley Herschbach, and Freeman Dyson, and said she was drawn to physics by Jeff Bezos.[7] She has received job offers from Blue Origin, an aerospace company founded by Amazon.com's Jeff Bezos, and the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA).[15] "

 

[speedo]

I wish her the best but too often the moniker of the next...fill in the blank, can be a burden.

 

[Option_Attack]

Ahhh...she should be barefoot and pregnant, and gettin' my samitch and beer!

 

[TreeFrogTrader]

Good for her. She doesnt sound like the type that would have to go to her safe space with her therapy dog if some guy at google says something controversial about her or about women in science and technology.

Not sure I would want to have a "can women really code" discussion with her.

 

[speedo]

Good for her. She doesnt sound like the type that would have to go to her safe space with her therapy dog if some guy at google says something controversial about her or about women in science and technology.

Not sure I would want to have a "can women really code" discussion with her.

 

[newwurldmn]

Good for her. She doesnt sound like the type that would have to go to her safe space with her therapy dog if some guy at google says something controversial about her or about women in science and technology.

Not sure I would want to have a "can women really code" discussion with her.

I'm sure she has had her share of sexism in the academic world.