Tathagat Avatar Tulsi

Who is Tathagat Avatar Tulsi?

Tathagat Avatar Tulsi is an Indian physicist, best known as a child prodigy. He completed high school at the age of 9, earned a B.Sc. at the age of 10 and a M.Sc. at the age of 12 from Patna Science College. In August 2009, he got his Ph.D. from the Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore at the age of 22. In July 2010, he was offered a position as Assistant Professor on contract at IIT Bombay.

While he was admitted for a Ph.D. program at 17, for a journalist query the then dean of the physics dept at IISc described him "good boy, very lovable and working to achieve his goals"; however, he declined to comment on the description of Tulsi as a prodigy.