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'''Akrit Pran Jaswal''' (born April 23, 1993, [[Nurpur, Himachal Pradesh|Nurpur]]<ref>[http://www.tribuneindia.com/2006/20060724/himachal.htm The Tribune, Chandigarh, India - Himachal Pradesh]{{Dead link|date=April 2013}}</ref>) is an [[India]]n [[adult]] who was a [[child prodigy]]{{Citation needed|date=January 2014}} as a [[surgeon]]{{Citation needed|date=January 2014}}. He performed his first surgery at the age of seven.<ref name="imperial">{{cite web | last = Senthilingam | first = Meera | title = Pass me the scalpel, Mummy | url = http://www.union.ic.ac.uk/media/iscience/article_template_typ.php?articleid=125 | publisher = Imperial College Magazine, London | accessdate = 2007-01-02 |archiveurl = http://web.archive.org/web/20070317200951/http://www.union.ic.ac.uk/media/iscience/article_template_typ.php?articleid=125 <!-- Bot retrieved archive --> |archivedate = 2007-03-17}}</ref>

== Life and education ==

According to his mother Raksha Kumari Jaswal, Akrit was an early starter, skipped the [[toddler]] stage and started walking. He started speaking in his 10th month and was reading Shakespeare at the age of five.{{Citation needed|date=April 2010}} Akrit developed a passion for science and [[anatomy]] at an early age. Doctors at local hospitals took notice and started allowing him to observe surgeries when he was seven years old.{{Citation needed|date=January 2014}} Inspired by what he saw, Akrit read everything he could on the topic. {{Citation needed|date=January 2014}}

When he was seven years old, an impoverished family unable to pay for regular healthcare heard about his amazing abilities, and asked if he would operate on their daughter. The surgery was successful and was widely celebrated.{{Citation needed|date=January 2014}}

Akrit hopes to someday continue his studies at [[Harvard University]].<ref name="imperial"/>

At 12 years old, he is the youngest person to be admitted to a medical university in India ([[Panjab University, Chandigarh|Punjab University]]). {{Citation needed|date=February 2013}}

Akrit Jaswal has an estimated IQ of 146.<ref>{{cite web | last = | first = | title = The Seven Year-Old Surgeon | url=http://www.teamfocus.co.uk/cgi-bin/articlefull.pl?id=17 | publisher = [[The Sunday Times]]  | accessdate = 2007-01-02 }}{{Dead link|date=April 2013}}</ref>{{Citation needed|date=January 2014}}

Akrit Jaswal had a reputation, in the region, for being a medical genius. He has been shown to have an I.Q. of 146.{{Citation needed|date=January 2014}}

He is focusing on medicine and now,and at the age of twelve, claims to be on the verge of discovering a cure for cancer.And he is now talking about his theories for oral gene therapy in the fight against cancer.{{Citation needed|date=January 2014}}

He has been sponsored and mentored by Mr B. R. Rahi the Chairman of Secondary Education in Dharamshala. He is studying for a science degree at Chandigarh College and, at twelve years of age, is the youngest student ever accepted by an Indian University.{{Citation needed|date=January 2014}}

Akrit's father left the family a year ago, perhaps depressed and exhausted by six years battling with Indian bureaucracy to get his son's intellect acknowledged and resources made available for his cancer research.{{Citation needed|date=January 2014}}

He was invited to Imperial College, London. He spent two weeks based at Imperial College having his intelligence tested and talking super-mechanisms, genes and therapies with scientists at the cutting-edge of cancer research. who performed his first surgery at the age of seven.<ref name="imperial">{{cite web | last = Senthilingam | first = Meera | title = Pass me the scalpel, Mummy | url = http://www.union.ic.ac.uk/media/iscience/article_template_typ.php?articleid=125 | publisher = Imperial College Magazine, London | accessdate = 2007-01-02 |archiveurl = http://web.archive.org/web/20070317200951/http://www.union.ic.ac.uk/media/iscience/article_template_typ.php?articleid=125 <!-- Bot retrieved archive --> |archivedate = 2007-03-17}}</ref>

Akrit hopes to someday continue his studies at [[Harvard University]].<ref name="imperial"/> He has an estimated IQ of 146.<ref>{{cite web | last = | first = | title = The Seven Year-Old Surgeon | url=http://www.teamfocus.co.uk/cgi-bin/articlefull.pl?id=17 | publisher = [[The Sunday Times]]  | accessdate = 2007-01-02 }}{{Dead link|date=April 2013}}</ref>{{Citation needed|date=January 2014}}

==See also==
{{portal|Chandigarh}}
* [[Balamurali Ambati]]
* [[Sho Yano]]
* [[Child prodigy]]

==References==

{{Reflist}}

==External links==
* [http://www.five.tv/programmes/extraordinarypeople/sevenyosurgeon The seven-year-old surgeon_]
* [http://www.mymultiplesclerosis.co.uk/misc/akritjaswal.html Akrit Jaswal The Child Surgeon]

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