Jacob Barnett

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Jacob Barnett

Jacob L. "Jake" Barnett (born May 26, 1998 in Indiana ) is an American physicist who became known as a child prodigy .

Life

He was diagnosed with autism when he was two years old . Since no successes were achieved in the special kindergarten and the teachers said he would neither speak nor write, his parents decided to support him privately. He had an early interest in physics and astronomy. Due to his intermittent inability to communicate, his parents were late in finding out what lines of thought he was pursuing. At the age of 13 he co-authored a physics research paper that has been published. Psychology professor Joanne Ruthsatz, who studies child prodigies at Ohio State University , said in an interview that talents such as Barnett's are found in approximately one in ten million people.

In 2011, Barnett's mother posted a series of videos on YouTube . Articles appeared in the media with headlines such as “Child prodigy dwarfs Einstein” and “12-Year-Old Genius Expands Einstein's Theory of Relativity, Thinks He Can Prove It Wrong”.

Barnett was admitted to the Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Physics in Waterloo in 2013 for the year-long master’s program Perimeter Scholars International . At 15, he was the youngest student to attend the program since the program began. In 2014 he successfully completed the course. He then took up postgraduate studies at the Perimeter Institute and the University of Waterloo and is preparing for his doctorate.

Publications

In 2011, Barnett co-authored the article Origin of maximal symmetry breaking in even PT-symmetric lattices in the journal Physical Review A with Yogesh N. Joglekar, a physics professor at Indiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis (IUPUI). At 13, he was the youngest person to ever publish in the journal.

Work

  • Yogesh N. Joglekar, Jacob L. Barnett: Origin of maximal symmetry breaking in even PT-symmetric lattices . In: Physical Review A . 84, No. 2, August 30, 2011. doi : 10.1103 / PhysRevA.84.024103 .
  • Jacob Barnett, Lee Smolin : Fermion Doubling in Loop Quantum Gravity , 2015, arxiv : 1507.01232

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ 60 minutes of overtime
  2. ↑ Kristine Barnett: The spark: a mother's story of nurturing genius , 1st. Edition, Random House, New York 2013, ISBN 978-0-8129-9337-0 .
  3. ↑ Maureen Seaberg: The Spark and Synesthesia: Savant Jake Barnett Calculates Using Colored Shapes . In: Psychology Today , May 16, 2013. Book review
  4. ^ Ohio State University, Faculty Research, Joanne Ruthsatz ( Memento from August 20, 2014 in the Internet Archive )
  5. ↑ a b 60 minutes
  6. ↑ The child prodigy dwarfs Einstein , accessed October 10, 2014
  7. ↑ Michelle Castillo: 12-Year-Old Genius Expands Einstein's Theory of Relativity, Thinks He Can Prove It Wrong , Time Magazine . March 26, 2011. 
  8. ↑ Paul Wells : Jacob Barnett, Boy Genius . In: Maclean’s , Sept. 2013.
  9. ^ Lisa Lambert: Perimeter Institute welcomes exceptional young talent . Perimeter Institute . August 30, 2013. Retrieved October 10, 2014.
  10. ↑ PSI Ceremony 2014 . Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Physics . Retrieved October 10, 2014.
  11. ^ Avital Andrews: Jacob Barnett's Curious and Computational Mind . In: Pacific Standard , September 22, 2018, accessed August 27, 2019
  12. ↑ Yogesh N. Joglekar, Jacob L. Barnett: Origin of maximum symmetry breaking in even PT-symmetric lattices . In: Physical Review A . 84, No. 2, August 30, 2011. doi : 10.1103 / PhysRevA.84.024103 . , arxiv : 1108.6083

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personal data
SURNAME Barnett, Jacob
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Barnett, Jacob L .; Barnett, Jake (nickname)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American child prodigy
DATE OF BIRTH May 26, 1998
PLACE OF BIRTH Indiana