At an age when most kids are focused on beating the next level in a video game, or working toward actually hitting the ball in their baseball game on Saturday, William Maillis spending his time studying science, researching, and looking into the flaws of Stephen Hawking’s theory that God does not exist.
Most kids dream of becoming a firefighter, a doctor, maybe an astronaut or a teacher, but William Maillis isn’t just dreaming of becoming an astrophysicist, he’s already becoming one.
The boy from Pennsylvania, graduated high school in May of 2016, at the age of 9. After attending community college classes at St. Petersburg College and graduating with an associate in arts degree in July of 2018, he enrolled at Carnegie Mellon University to become an astrophysicist.
