Biography:Ainan Celeste Cawley
Ainan Celeste Cawley (born November 23, 1999) is a Singaporean child prodigy.[1]
Cawley gave his first public lecture at the age of six,[2][3] and at seven years and one month of age, he had passed the GCSE chemistry and studied chemistry at the tertiary level in Singapore Polytechnic[4] a year later. At the age of 9, he was able to recite pi to 518 decimal places and could remember the periodic table.[5] At the age of 12, he had scored his first film which was premiered at the Vilnius International Film Festival and eventually, directed his own film.[6]
In 2009, Cawley was featured in a Channel 4 documentary titled The World's Cleverest Child and Me.[7]
In 2010, his family moved to Kuala Lumpur where Cawley is a student at the Taylor's University in Malaysia after his father's request to have his son homeschooled was rejected.[8][9]
According to his parents, Valentine Cawley and Syahidah Osman, Cawley could walk at six months old and construct complex sentences by his first birthday[10] and had said his first word when he was two weeks old.[11]
See also
- List of child prodigies
- List of child music prodigies
- Intellectual giftedness
References
- ↑ Bertrand, Natasha (2015-02-27). "The 40 smartest people of all time". https://www.businessinsider.com/the-40-smartest-people-of-all-time-2015-2.
- ↑ Cawley, Valentine (2006-11-19). "Is Six Year Old Child Prodigy, Ainan Celeste Cawley, The World's Youngest Science Teacher?". http://www.prweb.com/releases/2006/11/prweb480311.htm.
- ↑ "The World's 50 Smartest Teenagers". https://thebestschools.org/features/worlds-50-smartest-teenagers/.
- ↑ "Half-Irish prodigy, 8, secures college place". 2008-05-20. https://www.irishexaminer.com/ireland/half-irish-prodigy-8-secures-college-place-63192.html.
- ↑ Cawley, Ainan (2009-01-26). "Nine-year-old prodigy is 'world's cleverest child'". https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/4342883/Nine-year-old-prodigy-is-worlds-cleverest-child.html.
- ↑ Buckley, Dan (2014-01-04). "Irish child prodigy puts talent to use for typhoon charity". https://www.irishexaminer.com/ireland/irish-child-prodigy-puts-talent-to-use-for-typhoon-charity-254202.html.
- ↑ "The World's Cleverest Child and Me". 2009. https://topdocumentaryfilms.com/world-cleverest-child-me/.
- ↑ Yap, Eve (31 March 2013). "My child is a prodigy". Singapore Press Holdings Ltd. http://newshub.nus.edu.sg/news/1303/PDF/PRODIGY-st-31mar-p6-7.pdf.
- ↑ "Child prodigy quits ‘rigid’ Singapore for Malaysia". 2010-01-06. https://asiancorrespondent.com/2010/01/prodigy-moves-to-malaysia-from-rigid-singapore/.
- ↑ Frean, Alexandra (2007-11-10). "Can the child prodigy work out if he should go to university aged 7?". https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/can-the-child-prodigy-work-out-if-he-should-go-to-university-aged-7-qd6b35gph3p.
- ↑ Yeoh, O. C. (2014-11-02). "GIFTED CHILDREN: Young achievers, high expectations". https://www.nst.com.my/news/2015/09/gifted-children-young-achievers-high-expectations.
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