'Good boy' Who Completed his PhD at 21, IIT Professor at 22, Gets Sacked From His Job

Cursory: Tathagat Avatar Tulsi is a child prodigy and a well-known physicist

There is news that is difficult to comprehend, but that’s what it is.

It is shocking how a young boy’s brain can accumulate what is magnitude for his age. Probably, as an adult, he will progress to be known as ‘ingenious‘

Indeed, Tathagat Avatar Tulsi, is a genius.

The genius was born in Bihar on September 9, 1987. He was referred to as a child of prodigy and a well-known physicist.

At the age of 9, Tulsi completed his schooling, earned a BSc degree at the age of 11, and completed his MSc at the age of 12 from Patna Science College.

After the completion of his Masters program, at the age of 17, he went to Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore, for his PhD program and completed his PhD in 2009 at the age of 21 years.

The then dean of the physics department called him as a “good boy, very lovable and working to achieve his goals“

In July 2010, IIT-Mumbai offered him a position as Assistant Professor on contract (a non-permanent teaching position for fresh PhD graduates).

Tulsi was however sacked from the post in 2019 and according to him, the institute decided to terminate his employment after he took a long leave due to illness.

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In 2001 the Indian government shortlisted him to participate in a Nobel laureates conference in Germany for his grabbed headlines.

Tulsi’s PhD thesis was on “Generalizations of the Quantum Search Algorithm”. He co-authored an unpublished research manuscript (“A New Algorithm for Fixed-point Quantum Search”) with Lov Grover.

Tulsi was once dubbed as one of the most gifted Asian youngsters by TIME magazine.

He was called a “Superteen” by Science, “Physics Prodigy” by The TIMES, “Master Mind” by The WEEK. Tulsi’s story was also shown by National Geographic Channel in the programme My Brilliant Brain on 13 December 2007.