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Science 24 January 2003:
Vol. 299. no. 5606, p. 509
DOI: 10.1126/science.299.5606.509b
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Superteen. A 15-year-old Indian prodigy has begun his doctoral studies in physics at the prestigious Indian Institute of Science in Bangalore.

Tathagat Avatar Tulsi, who earned a master's degree from Patna University at the unprecedented age of 12, says he owes his academic success to the right "temperament and dedication." He has been studying on his own for the past 4 years. The precocious teenager "has many holes in his knowledge base," says his adviser, theoretical physicist H. R. Krishnamurty. But authorities made no allowances for his age in accepting him last fall into one of the country's top physics programs.

Tulsi plans to study the theoretical basis for high- temperature superconducting materials. He'll be working in a lab founded by the country's only physics Nobelist, C. V. Raman.

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CREDIT: PALLAVA BAGLA

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