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A child prodigy is a person under the age of ten who produces meaningful work in some domain at the level of an adult expert. [1] [2] [3] The term is also applied more broadly to describe young people who are extraordinarily talented in some field.
- Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart. Mozart at age 7. The Austrian-born wunderkind first took up the harpsichord when he was just 3 years old. He composed his first piece of published music at age 5, and by his teen years, he had already written several concertos, sonatas, operas and symphonies.
- Enrico Fermi. Enrico Fermi in his laboratory. Before his work on radioactivity won him the Nobel Prize and helped usher in the nuclear age, Enrico Fermi was considered a mathematics and physics prodigy.
- Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz. Born in Mexico in 1651, Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz learned to read as a toddler and quickly blazed through all the books in her grandfather’s library.
- Pablo Picasso. As the son of a painter, Pablo Picasso had a brush in his hand from an early age. The future art legend could reportedly draw before he could talk, and his mother claimed that when he finally spoke, his first words were to ask for a pencil.
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart. Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart was the child prodigy par excellence, playing songs on the harpsichord at four years old and composing simple music at five. When he was seven years old, the Mozart family went on the first of several tours to demonstrate the prodigious musical abilities of the young marvel and his elder sister ...
- The Editors of Encyclopaedia Britannica
List of child prodigies. John von Neumann as a child. In psychology research literature, the term child prodigy is defined as a person under the age of ten who produces meaningful output in some domain to the level of an adult expert professional. [1] [2] [3] Mathematics and science.
Dec 21, 2019 · A prodigy is a child who is very precocious in a certain field, mastering a domain that has already been invented, she says. A genius, she believes, is someone who revolutionises a field of...
Jun 3, 2022 · Enjoy being humbled (or humiliated?) by these 11 amazing child prodigies, who achieved incredible feats in art, mathematics, and more before they were teenagers. 1. Judit Polgar // Chess...
Prodigy, a child who, by about age 10, performs at the level of a highly trained adult in a particular sphere of activity or knowledge. In this sense, neither high intelligence nor eccentric skills by themselves qualify a child as a prodigy. Rather, it is the capacity to perform in a recognized.
