Harvard University believes the world’s next Einstein is among us — and she’s a millennial.
At age 23, Sabrina Gonzalez Pasterski is already one of the most well-known and accomplished physicists in the U.S.
Pasterski first attracted the attention of the scientific and academic community after single-handedly building her own single-engine airplane in 2008, at age 14, and documenting the process on YouTube.
MIT professors Allen Haggerty and Earll Murman saw the video and were astonished.
At age 16, she piloted the aircraft herself over Lake Michigan, becoming the youngest person ever to fly their own plane.
“I couldn’t believe it,” recalls Peggy Udden, an executive secretary at MIT.
“That’s become my mantra ever since,” Pasterski told the Chicago Tribune in a 2016 interview. »
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