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

by Tom Clynes
The Boy Who Played with Fusion : Extreme Science, Extreme Parenting and How to Make a Star - Thryft
The Boy Who Played with Fusion : Extreme Science, Extreme Parenting and How to Make a Star - Thryft
  • PEN/E.O. Wilson Literary Science Writing Award Nominee for Shortlist (2016)
Note: While we do our best to ensure the accuracy of cover images, ISBNs may at times be reused for different editions of the same title which may hence appear as a different cover.

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

by Tom Clynes
ISBN: 9780571298143
Authors: Tom Clynes
Publisher: Faber & Faber Non Fiction
Date of Publication: 2016-07-07
Format: Paperback
Related Collections: History, Science, Biographies & Memoirs
Related Topics: Physics, Education, Biography, Biography Memoir, Memoir
Goodreads rating: 4.14
(rated by 570 readers)

Description

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.
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  • PEN/E.O. Wilson Literary Science Writing Award Nominee for Shortlist (2016)
Note: While we do our best to ensure the accuracy of cover images, ISBNs may at times be reused for different editions of the same title which may hence appear as a different cover.