Michael Kevin Kearney (born January 18, 1984) is a former prodigy known for organizing multiple world records related to graduating at a young age, as well as teaching in college as a teenager. In addition, as a contestant of the show, he has won over a million dollars.
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Michael was educated at home by his mother and father, especially his mother, a Japanese American. She was diagnosed with ADHD, but her parents refused to use the Ritalin prescription offered. His younger sister, Maeghan, was also a prodigy and graduated from college at the age of sixteen. According to psychology professor Martha J. Morelock, Kearney is helped to adjust to her environment with her parents' firmness, and the take-on-the-world attitude they give her. In 2006, Kearney's parents lived in Alaska.
Kearney pronounced his first words at four months. At the age of six months, he said to the pediatrician, "I had a left ear infection", and he learned to read at the age of ten months. When Michael was four, he was given a multiple-choice diagnostic test for a mature Johns Hopkins math program; without studying specifically for the exam, Michael achieved a perfect score.
Kearney attended San Marin High School in Novato, California, for one year, graduating at the age of six in 1990. In 1994, Kearney and her parents were on The Tonight Show.
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Higher education
"Most people, they go to school when they are 6 years old, and they get out of school around 22, 23.... I happen to be on campus all the time." --Kearney, age ~ 22
He enrolled at Santa Rosa Junior College in Sonoma County, California and graduated from High School at the age of 6, then studied at Santa Rosa Junior College where earned an Associate of Science in Geology graduated at the age of 8. In 1993, his family moved to Alabama, Around 1996, he was interviewed by Meredith Vieira at Turning Point (ABC News). In 2014, Kearney remains the youngest person to have a high school diploma and a bachelor's degree.
At the age of 8 he enrolled at the University of South Alabama where he received a 1994 bachelor's degree in anthropology and enrolled in the Guinness Book as the youngest university graduate in the world at the age of ten. At the age of 14, he earned a Master's degree in chemistry at Middle Tennessee State University. At the age of 18 he obtained his Master's degree in computer science at Vanderbilt University.
Research and teaching
Kearney graduated from Middle Tennessee State University with a master's degree in biochemistry at the age of fourteen. His 118 page thesis entitled "The Kinetic Isotope Effect of Tymidine Phosphasease"; research focused on the kinetics of glycosyltransferase involved in nucleotide synthesis. At that time, Kearney was the world's youngest postgraduate (a master's record since being damaged in 1999 by Tathagat Avatar Tulsi).
In 1996, the family moved to Murfreesboro, Tennessee, and Kearney attended Vanderbilt University, took classes and, at the age of sixteen, taught as well (he has not been able to drive legally). Kearney received his second master's degree, this one from Vanderbilt University, at the age of seventeen or eighteen, in computer science. Kearney received his doctorate in chemistry at the age of 22, after returning to Middle Tennessee State University as a teaching assistant (also in chemistry).
Involvement with game event
When young, Kearney attempted a career as a match-bearer; he and his parents moved to Hollywood, to shoot pilot episodes, but the proposed show was not taken.
In October 2006, Kearney became a finalist on the Gold Rush trivia-and-puzzle game, winning $ 100,000 USD. In November 2006, in front of the national audience on Entertainment Tonight, he then won a grand prize of an additional $ 1 million USD.
Kearney is a contestant in Who Wants to be a Millionaire? that aired on April 25 & amp; 28, 2008, won twenty-five thousand dollars. He was also a contestant on the Million Dollar Password that aired on June 14, 2009, but he did not qualify for the preliminary round (losing the tiebreak).
Awards and degrees
- High School diploma from San Marin High School, 1990 (age 6)
- Associate Degree from Santa Rosa Junior College (age 8)
- Anthropology degree from University of South Alabama, 1994 (age 10)
- Guinness World Record for the world's youngest college graduate (age 10)
- Master's degree in chemistry, Middle Tennessee State University (age 14)
- Master's degree in computer science, Vanderbilt University (age 18)
See also
- Intellectual talent
References
External links
- "Biography of Kearney's early education". tripod.com.
- Michael Kearney on IMDb
Source of the article : Wikipedia
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