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SA's own Sheldon Cooper, home-schooled Pretoria whizkid Hjalmar Rall heading for quantum greatness

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South Africa seems to have its own Sheldon Cooper. Like the physics genius from The Big Bang Theory fame, Pretoria youngster Hjalmar Rall graduated with honours in physics in his teens, he reveres Prof Richard Feynman and hope to one day be top in his field. Home-schooled after getting bored from normal school, Hjalmar graduated this year from the University in Pretoria in an online ceremony due to the Covid-19 lockdown. He tells Biznews' Linda van Tilburg he has his eye on attending one of the Top 20 universities in the world to pursue his love for and dream of quantum physics. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

18 May 2020 10AM English South Africa Investing · Business News

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