Child prodigy. At age 13 he won a gold medal in the International Physics Olympiad (1996). Entered Caltech at the age of 14, earned PhD in Physics from Princeton at age 22. Hirata skipped middle school and at 16 was working with NASA on project exploring the possibility of colonizing Mars. The Daily Princetonian, Princetons student paper, where Hirata began attending for his PhD in Astrophysics at 18, reported that his IQ is around 225. Link to Wikipedia biography Read less
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