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Harvard Calls Sabrina Gonzalez Pasterski World's "Next Einstein"

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Charvi Kathuria
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What Einstein did during his lifetime is commendable. There are very few people to walk the earth who can remotely match with even a shred of his accomplishments.

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The Harvard University, however, has found a young woman whom they believe can be the next Einstein. The 23-year-old Sabrina Gonzalez Pasterski is astounding the world with her academic and creative brilliance.

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Know more about Sabrina Gonzalez Pasterski

Sabrina was only 14-year-old when she constructed her own single-engine airplane without any help.

Besides constructing it, she flew it across Lake Michigan and scripted history by becoming the youngest person to ever fly their own plane. It took her two years to complete the project. She also documented her experience on YouTube for everyone to see it.

She graduated from Illinois Mathematics and Science Academy in 2010 following which she enrolled at the prestigious Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

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Sabrina is a first generation Cuban-American;  born in Chicago. In 1998 she was enrolled in the Edison Regional Gifted Center and graduated from Illinois Mathematics and Science Academy in 2010.

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She has been studying at MIT for three years, but has already achieved the highest possible grade point average of 5.0

She is currently working towards her doctorate at the Harvard University. There, she has full academic freedom.

Future plans

Sabrina Gonzalez wants to pay full attention to physics. She wants to study black holes and how gravity affects space and time. Her main focus is on 'quantum gravity' where she will attempt to understand the link between gravity within the context of quantum physics.

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Physics Girl is the name of the website where she records all her work. The CEO of Amazon has offered her a job as well.

It is amazing to see young women like Sabrina breaking grounds in the field of their choice. She is definitely the role model for millions of students across the world striving to make a mark in the world.

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