17-year-old Muhammad Shaheer Niazi dreams of bringing home the physics Nobel prize some day. Photo: Geo News

 

17-year-old Muhammad Shaheer Niazi dreams of bringing home the physics Nobel prize some day.

The young physics prodigy, who is an A-levels student, replicated a physics visualisation and developed results that surprised older scientists.

Speaking on Geo News' programme Naya Pakistan, Shaheer said that he hopes to conduct researches that will help bag the prestigious award. 

"My parents introduced me to science and physics at a very early age," he said. "I started finding the subjects interesting because of the mediums that enabled me to explore them." 

He said that interesting documentaries and encyclopedias piqued his interest in exploring the subjects. 

The young student developed photographic evidence of charged ions creating the honeycomb and published his work in the journal Royal Society Open Science. 

At 16, Shaheer got the honour of being published in the same journal in which the first research paper of Sir Isaac Newton, one of the world's most influential scientists, was published when he was 17-years-old. 

"Physics is not a very dry subject and I believe that parents and schools should make an interactive and interesting environment, to teach students in a fun way," he said. 

Niazi hopes to further explore the mathematics of the electric honeycomb in the future.