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Salman Amin "Sal" Khan is an American educator and the founder of Khan Academy, a free online non-profit educational platform with which he has produced over 6,500 video lessons teaching a wide spectrum of academic subjects, originally focusing on mathematics and science. He is also the founder of Khan Lab School, a private, in-person school in Mountain View, California.
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Born 11 October 1976 · Q471472
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If you believe in trying to make the best of the finite number of years we have on this planet (while not making it any worse for anyone else), think that pride and self-righteousness are the cause of most conflict and negativity, and are humbled by the vastness and mystery of the Universe, then I'm the same religion as you.
“If you believe in trying to make the best of the finite number of years we have on this planet (while not making it any worse for anyone else), think that pride and self-righteousness are the cause of most conflict and negativity, and are humbled by the vastness and mystery of the Universe, then I'm the same religion as you.”
Khan received an honorary Doctor of Humane Letters degree from Carnegie Mellon University
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Published “Accurate structure prediction of biomolecular interactions with AlphaFold 3” in Nature — cited 15,571 times.
Khan Academy has more than 155 million registered users, with students spending billions of hours of learning on the platform
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Khan received an honorary Doctor of Laws degree from Harvard University and an honorary degree of Doctor of Humane Letters from Dartmouth College
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Published “Global, regional, and national burden of stroke and its risk factors, 1990–2019: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2019” in The Lancet Neurology — cited 6,919 times.
Published “Heart Disease and Stroke Statistics—2020 Update: A Report From the American Heart Association” in Circulation — cited 6,862 times.
Published “Global burden of 87 risk factors in 204 countries and territories, 1990–2019: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2019” in The Lancet — cited 8,053 times.
Published “Global burden of 369 diseases and injuries in 204 countries and territories, 1990–2019: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2019” in The Lancet — cited 16,051 times.
Published “Global Burden of Cardiovascular Diseases and Risk Factors, 1990–2019” in Journal of the American College of Cardiology — cited 10,312 times.
Awarded Princess of Asturias Awards (2019).
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Published “Heart Disease and Stroke Statistics—2019 Update: A Report From the American Heart Association” in Circulation — cited 7,478 times.
Published “Global, regional, and national incidence, prevalence, and years lived with disability for 354 diseases and injuries for 195 countries and territories, 1990–2017: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2017” in The Lancet — cited 11,011 times.
Published “GW170817: Observation of Gravitational Waves from a Binary Neutron Star Inspiral” in Physical Review Letters — cited 8,280 times.
Published “Observation of Gravitational Waves from a Binary Black Hole Merger” in Physical Review Letters — cited 11,729 times.
Khan received the Padma Shri, the fourth-highest civilian award of the Republic of India, from the President of India
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Khan announced that Khan Academy was partnering with the College Board to create free practice resources for the SAT test
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Awarded Heinz Award (2014).
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Khan received the 19th Annual Heinz Award in the Human Condition category
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Khan was named in the annual publication of Time 100
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Promoting the connection of teachers with students through videos and monitor tools
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Khan received the American Academy of Achievement Golden Plate Award for public service
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Published “Observation of a new boson at a mass of 125 GeV with the CMS experiment at the LHC” in Physics Letters B — cited 6,664 times.
Khan was the youngest commencement speaker at his alma mater in 30 years
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Khan was named one of Time's 100 most influential people in the world (Time 100)
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Published “Two-Dimensional Nanosheets Produced by Liquid Exfoliation of Layered Materials” in Science — cited 6,866 times.
Khan's freshman-year roommate at MIT, Shantanu Sinhal, was appointed as Khan Academy’s president
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The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation became one of the academy's biggest supporters
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Khan planned to extend the "free school" to cover topics such as English literature
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And moved his tutorials to YouTube, where he created an account on November 16, 2006
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Khan started tutoring his cousin, Nadia, in mathematics over the internet using Yahoo
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Khan was a summer intern at Xerox PARC
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With a double major Bachelor's degree in Electrical Engineering & Computer Science and Mathematics and a Master of Engineering degree, also in Electrical Engineering & Computer Science
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Born 1976-10-11.
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