At Munji Boundi High School in the United States, he was so good in science subjects that he never had to study for his exams. Then Harvard came and everything changed.

It is an oft-cited urban legend that Albert Einstein failed at mathematics. Although the story sounds funny, it’s actually nothing more than fiction – and not the story that exists now Live Science Recent Nobel Prize laureate Mongi Bawendi wrote about the scientist.

American Boundy, along with two other American colleagues, Louis Bruce and Alexei Ekimov, won the most prestigious scientific awards for the discovery and production of semiconductor nanostructures known as quantum dots (or quantum dots). As it turns out, it didn’t take long for him to choose a different career.

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According to the report, the scientist, who currently teaches at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, failed his first chemistry exam when he was an undergraduate, for which, according to his admission, he “almost died.”




Boundy, now 62, was so good at science subjects in high school that he didn’t have to put in much effort to excel at them. In the 1970s, he was accepted to Harvard University, where he had no such experience.

“I was used to not having to study for exams. But when I received the assignment at university, I froze: I could neither answer the first nor the second question.” In the end, he got only 20 out of 100, the lowest score in the entire class.

“I was thinking about what I’m doing here,” Boundy said. Although he loved chemistry, he forgot to learn how to study it, so he had to put in a lot of effort to pass his exams.

Bondi told the youth: Do not let failure deter you from your goal, but rather persevere and strive to achieve your dream.

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