Posted by: lootekukur April 25, 2008
Alia Sabur: World's Youngest Professor
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(For those who missed this story: would you believe that the world's youngest professor can't legally drink?)

Quite a feat!

"Knowing is not enough, we must apply" - Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

That could serve as explanation for what prompted the 19-year-old to become the youngest college professor in history.

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She started talking and reading when she was just 8 months old. She had elementary school finished at age 5.

She made the jump to college at age 10. And by age 14, Sabur was earning a bachelor’s of science degree in applied mathematics summa cum laude from Stony Brook University — the youngest female in U.S. history to do so.

Her education continued at Drexel University, where she earned an M.S. and a Ph.D. in materials science and engineering.

With an unlimited future ahead of her, Sabur directed her first career choice to teaching. She was three days short of her 19th birthday in February when she was hired to become a professor at Konkuk University in Seoul, Korea.

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