A 22-year-old who was home-schooled by his father has become the youngest person in the UK to hold a Ph.D. in astrophysics. Imran Nasim completed his Ph.D. at the University of Surrey, in Guildford, England, just four years after getting a first-class honors degree in math and physics. The young doctor has long-term plans to open his own laboratory and go into medicine to help people; more specifically, cancer research. Nasim, from Burgess Hill, West Sussex, will be pursuing his three-year post-doctorate study on an aggressive type of kidney cancer at Harvard University. A talented young lad, Nasim was doing A-level work at age 12 and had enrolled for a degree course with an open university at the age of 14. He wanted to pursue a career in medicine earlier but settled for astrophysics when no university would let him use their laboratory until he turned 18. Nasim’s doctoral research on supermassive black holes has …