Jacob L. "Jake" Barnett (born May 26, 1998) is an American physics student and child prodigy. According to a memoir penned by his mother, he was diagnosed with autism when he was two years old and was homeschooled by his parents.Barnett was admitted to the Perimeter Scholars International in 2013, a one-year master's degree program at the Perimeter Institute in Waterloo, Ontario.