It was a long-held belief in the scientific community that only younger scientists made significant advances. Having developed his theory of relativity at age 26, Einstein said, "A person who has not made his great contribution to science before the age of 30 will never do so."
Although there have been many noted scientists in their 40s and beyond, these are five who accomplished their important discoveries at a young age.
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At 25 years old, Australian scientist Lawrence Bragg became one of the youngest people to receive a Nobel Prize, although his groundbreaking research began when he was only 22. In 1915, he and his father were jointly awarded the Nobel Prize in physics for their work in X-ray crystallography. His research revealed that X-rays are diffracted based on the crystal's atomic structure.
The area of X-ray crystallography continues to impact the fields ...
