The Boy Who Played With Fusion

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

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Publisher's Synopsis

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.

Book information

ISBN: 9780571298143
Publisher: Faber & Faber
Imprint: Faber & Faber
Pub date:
DEWEY: 539.764092
DEWEY edition: 23
Language: English
Number of pages: xv, 303 , 8 unnumbered of plates
Weight: 266g
Height: 197mm
Width: 128mm
Spine width: 22mm