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Great Achievements by Teenagers (view source)
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==Achievements, listed by age at which they were made==
==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]]
* '''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''' - chess-player [[Bobby Fischer]] became an International Grandmaster
* '''14''' - [[Mozart]] wrote the opera, "Mitridate Rè di Ponto"
* '''14''' - [[Mozart]] wrote the opera, "Mitridate Rè di Ponto"
* '''15''' - [[Louis Braille]] invented the [[Braille]] system
* '''15''' - [[Louis Braille]] invented the [[Braille]] system
* '''18''' - [[Mary Shelley]] wrote Frankenstein (The Modern Prometheus) - it is only published when she is 21, however.
* '''15''' - Karl Benz
* '''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==
*[http://listverse.com/miscellaneous/top-10-child-prodigies/ Top 10 Child Prodigies]
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