18-yr-old becomes world's youngest male professor, breaks 306-yr-old record

Nathan Thomas, who hails from Florida, has become world's youngest male professor after accepting an engineering teaching position at Miami Dade College at the age of 18 years and 346 days. Thomas began teaching in August 2023. The record had been held by Colin Maclaurin for 306 years after he became a professor at the age of 19.