The boy who played with fusion : extreme science, extreme parenting, and how to make a star /

The boy who played with fusion : extreme science, extreme parenting, and how to make a star /

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 b...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Clynes, Tom (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Boston : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2015.
Subjects:
Wilson, Taylor, > 1994-
Gifted boys > United States > Biography.
Fusion reactors.
Nuclear fusion.
Biographies.
Table of Contents:
  • The digger
  • The pre-nuclear family
  • Propulsion!
  • Space camp
  • The "responsible" radioactive boy scout
  • The cookie jar
  • In the (glowing) footsteps of giants
  • Alpha, beta, gamma
  • Trust but verify
  • Extreme parenting
  • Accelerating toward big science
  • Heavy water
  • Bright as the sun
  • Bringing the sun down to earth
  • The roots of prodigiousness
  • The lucky donkey theory
  • Twice as nice, half as good
  • Atomic travel
  • Champions for the gifted
  • A Hogwarts for geniuses
  • A fourth state of grape
  • Heavy metal apron
  • Birth of a star
  • The neutron club
  • A field of dreams, an epiphany in a box
  • The father of all bombs
  • We're just breathing your air
  • The superbowl of science
  • Scotch tape.