FIRST YOUNGEST INDIAN IIT PROFESSOR

athagat Avatar Tulsi (Centre) poses
with his parents after becoming
 the youngest assistant professor  in physics at the
Indian Institute of Technology, Mumbai, in Patna on Tuesday.
Photo: PTI/Hindu

July 14 2010. The 22-year-old Patna-born prodigy Tathagat Avtar Tulsi is all set to become the country's youngest faculty at the prestigious Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Powai in Mumbai. 

Official sources said that Dr. Tulsi, will be joining as an assistant professor in the Department of Physics next week. 

Mr. Tulsi, who completed high school at the age of 9 years, had secured a B.Sc. degree at 10 and his M.Sc. degree in Physics at the age of 12. and a PhD in Quantum Computing from the Indian Institute of Science (IISc), Bangalore, at 21.

In 2003, he was named as one of the world's “seven most gifted youngsters” by Time magazine.  

Tulsi will teach Physics at IIT Bombay from July 19, having chosen the institute over Waterloo University, Canada, and the Indian Institute of Science Education & Research (IISER), Bhopal, both of which had offered him jobs. But he preferred to stay back in India. In a recent interview with CNN IBN's Rajdeep Sardesai the "wonderkid"  said, though i have faced humiliation in the year 2001 by some scientist in Germany, I am now happy that I have achieved something and I am very happy to join an IIT as faculty, and my aim is to achieve Nobel Prize."

Knol Author's Note:

"Well Done Dr. Tulasi, We are proud of you, though you are humiliated in August 2001 with false allegation in Germany by some scientists, you have now come out with flying colors with all praise from everywhere. I just heard yesterday your interview with Rajdeep Sardesai of CNN IBN, my respect towards you is increased a hundred fold. Keep up my boy oh! sorry Prof. Saheb,  your aim to reach the Nobel prize. I Wish you All Good Wishes to you for the new assignments as well to achieve your goal or gaining Nobel Prize."