The Boy Who Played with Fusion: Extreme Science, Extreme Parenting and How to Make a Star

by Tom Clynes

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By the age of nine, Taylor had mastered the science of rocket propulsion.

At eleven, his grandmother's cancer diagnosis inspired him to seek new ways to produce medical isotopes.

And by fourteen, Taylor had built a reactor which produces temperatures hotter than the sun, becoming the youngest person in history to achieve nuclear fusion.

How did Taylor manage all this? And how did his parents find the courage to give their son the support and freedom he needed to succeed? Here is an astonishing story of audacity, perseverance and passion -- and a boy whose world seems to have no limits.
  • ISBN10 0571298141
  • ISBN13 9780571298143
  • Publish Date 7 July 2016 (first published 9 June 2015)
  • Publish Status Active
  • Publish Country GB
  • Imprint Faber & Faber
  • Edition Main
  • Format Paperback
  • Pages 320
  • Language English