Famous Scientists That Started Their Work as Young Teens

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Note: no all of history's most important scientists were college graduates when they began their works. In actual fact, history is full of scientists who have changed the world due to their work as teenagers. If they were disregarded because of their age, many things we take for granted today may not exist. These teenagers impacted the world far greater than they would realize long after their deaths.

1. Blaise Pascal - Did you know that your Windows-based computer system has a tool installed which was invented 350 years ago by Blaise Pascal? In 1642, while still a teenager, he started some pioneering work on calculating machines. After three years of effort and 50 prototypes,  he built 20 finished machines (called Pascal's calculators and later Pascalines) Although the centuries have developed calculators that are solar powered, digital, software-based and scientific, Pascal became very serious with his research on the development of earlier versions of our calculating devices. No smartphone or computer would be complete without a calculator of some kind?

The argument can be made that if one person hadn't invented a particular theory or device, someone else would have. However, could we believe that it would be the same product if it came from a completely different perspective of a different inventor?

2. Isaac Newton - Throughout Newton's formative years, it was so common for him to develop various devices while attending school. His devotion to studies and high marks in school were impressive to many. Although his mother attempted to make him a farmer by removing young Isaac from school, after which his uncle and the school master advised his mother to allow him return to school so as to finish his education. Isaac Newton attended Cambridge University after upon school in 1661. He established a variety of scientific methods and discoveries as well as those in optics and colors.

3. Albert Einstein - Albert Einstein In his younger years, had always shown a great interest in mathematics and science. He attended the Swiss Federal Polytechnic examinations in Zurich. Although he scores below standard in many of the required subjects but his mathematics and physics skills were exceptionally high. Albert Einstein also attended Aargau Cantonal School in Aarau which is in Switzerland where he graduated with passing grades in some subjects and receiving the highest grade scale possible in mathematics and physics. His theories have laid the ground work for many scientists of today and is most notable for the Theory of Relativity.

4. Galileo Galilei - At the age of 17, he was at the University of Pisa studying for a medical degree, Galileo Galilei became engrossed to know how movements of air currents could cause a chandelier to sway in a rhythmic pattern. Setting up a set of differentiating pendulums, Galileo discovered that irrespective of the size difference the pendulums kept time with each other. Galileo changed his degree from medical sciences to mathematics after attending a lecture on geometry. At the age of 22, Galileo published a book on the design of a hydrostatic balance he had invented.

5. Aristotle - In the 3rd Century BCE, at the age of 18, he attended Plato's Academy where he nearly studied every subject offered at the time, For the 20 years he remained at the Academy until he finally left.

Aristotle, with his massive knowledge of subject material had made great contributions to nearly every subject of study. Aristotle had completed encyclopedias of information thereby opening doors for many.