The Boy Who Played with Fusion Audiobook by Tom Clynes

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Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/audiobook/33/ to download full audiobooks of your choice for free. Title: The Boy Who Played with Fusion Subtitle: Extreme Science, Extreme Parenting, and How to Make a Star Author: Tom Clynes Narrator: P. J. Ochlan Format: Unabridged Length: 12 hrs and 27 mins Language: English Release date: 06-09-15 Publisher: Blackstone Audio, Inc. Ratings: 4.5 of 5 out of 44 votes Genres: Bios & Memoirs, Science & Technology Leaders Publisher's Summary: 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 11 his grandmother's cancer diagnosis drove him to investigate new ways to produce medical isotopes. And by 14 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 19-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.

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