Nick Ut was born in Long An Province, Vietnam on March 29, 1951. He was first introduced to the AP office by his mother when he was 14 years old.
This image won him the Pulitizer Prize for spot news photography in 1973.
The impact Nick Ut's work had on the world was that it showed people what the kids were going through in the Vietnam war because people don't pay attention to news but this photograph is an attention grabber.