WASHINGTON, April 26: Alia Sabur, a 19-year old Iranian , has been declared the world’s youngest professor in history by the Guinness Book of World Records.
Alia broke the 1717 record set by a student of physicist Isaac Newton, Colin Maclaurin.
She has been setting records and making history throughout her young career; starting with reading at 8 months. Her IQ was determined off the charts.
She went from 4th grade to college, earning a BS in Applied Mathematics summa cum laude from Stony Brook University, New York at age 14, the youngest female in American history.
She then earned an MS and PhD in Materials Science and Engineering from Drexel University, Philadelphia.
Alia is the youngest ever to receive fellowships and awards from the US Department of Defence, Nasa and the US National Science Foundation.
She was 18 when she was hired as a professor in the Department of Advanced Technology Fusion at Konkuk University in Seoul, Korea.
“It’s really a great honour to be in the company of such great scientists,” Alia said.
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The question is can she teach with a burqua on?
Only a low life or a red neck would post such a comment.
Interesting…
“Tehran – The Iranian-American child prodigy Alia Sabur said that she was not Iranian and did not have Iranian roots, ISNA news agency reported Monday. “I am not an Iranian and have no Iranian roots. The nationality of my parents are my private business and have no need to be exposed,” ISNA news agency quoted Sabur as saying.
“I was born in New York and consider myself as a scientist belonging to the whole world,” ISNA quoted her further as saying.
Last February, Sabur was registered by the Guinness Book of World Records as the world’s youngest professor, after she was appointed professor of mathematics in Seoul’s Konkuk University at 19.
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She belongs to the “whole world”
Her father is from Pakistan and her mother is an
American. The Wikipedia entry is wrong.
The question is whether idiots should be allowed to ask stupid questions?
stupid people like you without knowledge and information about diff countries ,its not so surprise asking such stupid question.
when you don’t even know the different between and Iranian and an Arab, you better shut your mouth 🙂
A better question would be are older professors going to take her seriously? Are her students even going to respect her, since some of them will be years her senior?
The age is not matter,even being a girl; what is important is the knowledge and the atitude of this professor.
Avicenna ,was 16 when he become prof in 12 field of science.
She is a one smart cookie, she is the one we need for the future.
There is nothing about her being Iranian in her official website (www.aliasabur.com) or she had mentioned this anywhere.
to ali:
please read the related links…
to lady:
you think respcting a student to his/her teacher is related to his/her age?!
and you 2th question:
older professors going to take her seriously?
is it important?!
if yes why not?! she had the same degree in equal with the old professors!
mylesfromnowhere,
The answer is probably yes if she had do.
Can you work in your KKK robe ?
To mylesfromnowhere
Envy is a great sin – lacking IQ? Anyway, it is better to teach in Burqa, than in cowboy outfit!
It is funny how you imediately read racism into that… you might want to look into that.
Hi…..
Art Gallery.
Many Iranians sending e-mails to each other about her and are proud to knowing the youngest professor is an Iranian girl. As an Iranian, I am so proud of her too as well. But I’m a little curious to know why isn’t she ever mention that?
sirc v raman,nl, must have infuenced her immensely .she is a precocious prodigyand the einstein in the making.
i love you so much .with the best wishes for you .
So what, pakistan will break this record soon.
She must be one bright kid. This is fantastic and she should be encouraged. Pray that God keeps her under His protection.
Mansur
I very honord that is an iranian.Am very happy for her and her parents.I wish healt and happiness for.
I m really proud of this iranian girl.
This is very strange and unbelievable. Absolutely unbelievable. Gosh!
Interesting that Alia said that she is not Iranian-arab etc. She said her nationality is American, but generally she belongs to all nations.(or something like) I like her way of thinking. 🙂
yeah she is going to be a world changer and she is already a role model i really admire her
4th grade to college?
WTF? Post SAT scores too.. oh wait~ she’s a prodigy so her score is perfect
Also, just because she’s been through college and graduate school doesn’t mean she knows everything. In fact, she should compete with savants of different groups 🙂
First we should say that this girl out of the box, I am sure her IQ is high, although I am not confident that IQ scale is something reliable to give measurment for human intelligent.
The clue to understand how did she accomplished this degrees so early in ageis to know how she was raised. There are lots of people force calculas on thier kids in early age but this do not yield good results; I think we need to hear from her parents for better understanding.
finally she is hard worker, smart and for sure gourgeose.
The first woman in space an Iranian the youngest professor an iranian the first united nations persian empire the first post system Iranian the list goes on We have to do everything first its in our nature
خانم اسلامی هر چقدر می توانی در مورد مسائلی که تو نزد مهربانترین مهربانان خدای تنهایی هایت تو را عزیز خواهد کرد فکر کن. موفق باشی خبرنگار مجله سلام بچه ها
baba ey val
kheili khoshhal shodam
It Makes me Happy to see a new record in history of knowledge! but it’s not wisely for us (Iranian) to proud of a girl that I really dont know whether she can speak in persian, or know herself as a Iranian!!!
First excuse my English.
http://www.iranian.com/main/singlepage/2008/alia-sabur
The last comment at the bottom of that page says:
“His father is from Pakistan and her mother is an American.
[…] I got the info from her PhD advisor from drexel University.”
But do you have any idea if she consider herself a believer of some kind ? She says her abilities are a gift from God. I think she could be a Muslim.
btw, I am not a Muslim.
chances are she is. and an extreme smart – and nice – person, too.
thank you for future answers.
dear proffessor
thank you for your attempt, we all proud of you.
dear professor Alia
You are the best sign of human ability to know self .
The earth proud of you to LIVE ON IT ,
With the best wishes.
hi
dear professor alia you are the best
Dear Professor Alia,
Hi,hope you will be fine.Your are the best symbol of iranian smart people and top grade of them.I proud of you.Meanwhile your family is as the same as my boss`s family in iran.
With the best wishes
Kind Regards,
morvaride siah
thats my pleasure to know you..iranian are superior;i do bleave it as well.
i proud of iran and thoes homtowns who keep greating this awsume land….
wish u good luck ;now &ever
oh good
well.how ever she is iranian;but sure she wouldnt be at her rightplace ;if she would growup in iran..then for sure she would be locked behind univercities entrance exam..like other iranians youth who are as talent as her ..
so thanx god she get such a good luck in her life%we can proud of her
Maybe she is Iranian, But the question is that If she was in Iran she could managed to reach this success??????
درود به شرفت
به ایرانی بودنم افتخار میکنم ایرانی یعنی این
besyar kob
یک نابغه محدود به مرز نیست، همه جا وجودش می درخشد
eftekhar mionam be to
eftekhar mikonam be to
Hi Dear
you are the world honour , and I proud you such as a good human,
but your nationality not IRAN, the world is own of you. and you are the own of world, it dose not important what people think.
Ahmad
I hope ,that I see you in IRAN
whit best wishes for you.
i’m an iranian
and i am very very very happy that Alia is an iranian girl….
i am realy proud of u …bcoz u r muslim…and u r symbol all over world…
salam
vaghean khoshal konandas, omidvaram moafagh bashi.
salam
mekhaham roozi choon shoma bedarakhsham
be nazare shoma metavanam?
to those who insist she is Iranina girl:
– she has annonced loud and clear – she is not. baba pls stop attaching or detaching her to one specific gegraphical point, change the grear baba and let her be just Alia !!
for some reason she does not like to talk about her origin and her father’s natonality. thats fine and we all shld respect her privacy. its considered FOOZOOLI to dig on this subject —and thats no good at all.
we all shld be proud to hv such a prodigy kid around as she belongs to the whole world. she is a game changer and soon wl be a world changer. if u read her resaerch work on nontechnology u wl hope soon or late she wl come up with an answer to one of the mystries of our time like cancer – ms – autoimmune secrets etc etc.
lets all stop fozooli in her private life and celebrate her success and wish her the highest scientific achievment for the walefare of human being.
Hi my dear.I hope you be succesfull in all the time and will progress
قبلن یه چیزهایی در مورد خانم آلیا شنیده بودم!
مایه افتخاره!
اما اگه در ایران بود مایه ابتذال!
goooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo
one of the comments was meant that a genius person is not limitted in borders but as a such a person i don’t think so , if i was not born in iran or let me say living by force in iran , i could published my poems and novels which in quantity are more than my age.
oh dear,
i whish i was not hear,
i whish i could leave hear,
i whish i cuold tell dear ,
why i can not leave hear,
since;my wings are broken
my heart is broken
my eyes are full tears
let me , let me , leave dears
ای تپش های تن سوزان من
سایه ای بر سایه ی پنهان من
قطره اشکی بر سیه مژگان من
نور مهری در شب تاریک من
شوق عشقت ریخته در جان من
جام وصلت سر کشیدن کار من
ای تو مروارید و در بحر من
در غمت افتاده ام از پای من
ای تو نور چشم راغب بازگرد
تا شود دنیا و بختش آن من
چشم بگشا تا ببینی سوز من
تا که شاید دربیابی حال من
I am proud . Best wishes to your future , and by the way for your father and mother
She is not iranian, i would like her to be but she is not…
anyway i’m proud of her as a human without careing what her nationality is
congratulations for this huge success Dear Mrs.Sabur
please tell me realy she is a iranian girl or no?because i want to give a search about her help me
thanks to her i sincerely have gave the strength ,ability and indeed the will the achieve my dream .im proud to be a woman , but mostly worth of sometime in this world .
این که کسی نابغه باشه افتخاری نیست
اینکه چگونه با هر مقدار توانایی و تلاش همیشگی موفق شود باعث افتخار است
شما باعث افتخاريد اميدوارم هميشه موفق باشيد
age in khanom avalesh kheng budan va tu iran ta’lim dide budan mishod eftekhar kard!..
I dont care she is Iranian or Pakistanian or what, just I wonder a geniuse one like her why has to behave this much foolish to hide her heritage??
It’s sooooo funny. I think the only reason is that she isn’t prematured socially as she is in math.
so powerful
So powerful
i doubt if she’s human…come on guys 8 months..really?She’s like Kyle XY in the flesh…i think she’s super human…Mozart playing, black-belt she’s off the charts.
No matter where she is from, I have a great respect for some one like her. I am a physician, and teach in university. I am also considered a scientist, but, she is an impressive one. She is a pride of any country, even the world.
HA.
All of you guys are wrong, she is from Afghanisatan
Am really inpress, it’s gave me scenes of reponsibility am old to beet the recod but not old to rusuming my purpose. Godbless you.
Alia my dear, I admire your IQ! It is a special gift from God. To Him alone be all Glory. amen
Mrs. Franca Ebuetse. Nigeria
Her mom’s accent is neither Iranian, nor Afghani or Pakistani….why does she keep her origin a secret?
It’s so wonderfull,I am greatfull