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'Boy genius' Chiang dies
SEREMBAN : Chiang Ti Ming, the boy genius who was the
youngest student ever to be admitted into the prestigious California Institute
of Technology (CalTech) almost two decades ago, has passed away on Saturday
morning.
"He passed away peacefully," said a family member yesterday.
The family decline to reveal other details while Chiang's parents,father
Chiang Chick Liam and mother Lee Soo Hoon, were too distraught to talk
to the press.
Only his family members were seen entering the house here yesterday afternoon
and requested that privacy be given to them.
Press reports in 2002 said that he had been admitted into a hospital in
Kuala Lumpur, for depression and withdrawal symptoms. The family also
suffered a tragic loss when his sister Eei Wern, drowned at the swimming
pool of the Seremban International Golf Club in 1993. Eei Wern was the
four.
It was reported 16 years ago that Chiang, who was 15 at the time, was
not only the youngest student to be admitted into CalTech but also among
the top five percent where his results were concerned.
Chiang had achieved many firsts while at CalTech,including being the youngest
ever student to receive the Undergraduate Students Merit Award two years
in a row.
He was also an honorary member of the Tau Beta Phi, a national engineering
society.
He had been accepted to study for the second year of the four-year Physics
degree course at the university in 1989 when he was 13 after sponsorship
from several organisations.
The prodigy later pursued and graduated with a doctorate in particle physics
at Cornell University in New York.
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