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The Boy Who Played with Fusion Lib/E

The Boy Who Played with Fusion Lib/E

Extreme Science, Extreme Parenting, and How to Make a Star

by Tom Clynes
CD-Audio
Publication Date: 09/06/2015

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This is the story of how an American teenager became the youngest person ever to build a working nuclear fusion reactor.

By the age of nine, Taylor Wilson had mastered the science of rocket propulsion. At eleven, his grandmother's cancer diagnosis drove him to investigate new ways to produce medical isotopes. And by fourteen, Wilson had built a 500-million-degree reactor and become the youngest person in history to achieve nuclear fusion. How could someone so young achieve so much, and what can Wilson's story teach parents and teachers about how to support high-achieving kids?

In The Boy Who Played with Fusion, science journalist Tom Clynes narrates Taylor's extraordinary journey-from his Arkansas home where his parents fully supported his intellectual passions; to a unique Reno, Nevada, public high school just for academic superstars; to the present, when now nineteen-year-old Wilson is winning international science competitions with devices designed to prevent terrorists from shipping radioactive material into the country. Along the way, Clynes reveals how our education system shortchanges gifted students-and what we can do to fix it.
ISBN:
9781504640091
9781504640091
Category:
Biography: science
Format:
CD-Audio
Publication Date:
09-06-2015
Publisher:
Blackstone Publishing
Country of origin:
United States
Dimensions (mm):
155x168x30mm
Weight:
0.34kg

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