A Florida man has officially been named as the world's youngest male professor.
Guinness World Records shared in a news release that Nathan Thomas became the youngest male professor even after accepting an engineering teaching position at Miami Dade College at the age of 18 years and 346 days old.
The title was previously held for 306 years by Colin Maclaurin, who was 19 when he became a professor. Moreover, Thomas is 16 days younger than the current holder of the world's youngest female professor, who is Alia Sabur.
Thomas started teaching students at the age of 18, which means he's the same age as them, as shared by a news release. But Thomas says he's not intimidated one bit. In fact, he enjoys the fact that age does not really factor into this as he tries to focus on doing his job well and assisting students in whatever manner possible.