Little boy sets world record for fastest recitation of periodic table

Tribune News Service

Hoshiarpur, January 4

A six-and-a-half-year-old boy from Hoshiarpur has brought laurels to the city by setting a world record for reciting all elements of Mendeleev’s periodic table in seriatum of their atomic numbers in a record time of 1 minute and 13 seconds.

With this distinguished feat, Devadyuman also became the youngest record holder to have orally recited full periodic table in record time. After official confirmation from the World Genius Records, Devadyuman was awarded Record Confirmation certificate, World Genius Records trophy, badge, medal and a certificate.

Talking to The Tribune, Rashmi Sharma, mother of Devadyuman, who is posted as a Additional District & Sessions Judge at Ludhiana, said, the periodic table was one of the most important tools in the history of chemistry as it describes the properties & atomic structure of all the elements known to mankind.

She said it was during lockdown that his son got inclined towards reciting periodic table. She said Devadyuman had also registered his name in the India Book of Record for having recited the names of the capitals of all countries of the world in a record time of 2 min 19 seconds.

Besides, Devadyuman was also the winner of India Star Icon Kids Achievers Award 2021 & was conferred with the Pratibha Samman Baal Rattan Award for extraordinary academic and cultural excellence, she added.