Eleni Hassabis
Demis Hasabis: The story of a genius who solves life’s mysteries and won the Nobel prize
As if by a quirk of fate—or perhaps DNA, something he would explore extensively in his adult life—Demis Hassabis did not inherit a talent for music or the arts from his Cypriot father. In what seems to contradict genetic predisposition, he was instead endowed with a rare mathematical mind and an extraordinary ability to understand the sciences.