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

Tom Clynes

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Edité par Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2015

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2016 PEN/E. O. Wilson Literary Science Writing Award Finalist Imagine if cartoon whiz kid Jimmy Neutron were real and had a brainchild with MacGyver and his adolescence got told as a rollicking bildungsroman about American prodigies and DIY nuclear reactors well, that s this book. Jack Hitt, author of Bunch of Amateurs By the age of nine, Taylor Wilson had mastered the science of rocket propulsion. At eleven, his grandmother s cancer diagnosis inspired him to investigate new ways to produce medical isotopes. And by fourteen, 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, to a unique public high school just for academic superstars, to the present, when Wilson is designing devices to prevent terrorists from shipping radioactive material and inspiring a new generation to take on the challenges of science. Clynes guides us on an engrossing journey to the outer realms of science and parenting. The Boy Who Played with Fusion is a fascinating exploration of giftedness and all its consequences. Paul Greenberg, author of Four Fish and American Catch An essential contribution to our understanding of the most important underlying questions about the development of giftedness, talent, creativity, and intelligence. Psychology Today TOM CLYNES writes regularly for National Geographic and is a contributing editor at Popular Science. His stories and photographs have also appeared in the Guardian, Men s Journal, Nature, the New York Times, the Sunday Times (London), the Washington Post, and many other publications.…

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The Boy Who Played With Fusion: Extreme Science, Extreme Parenting, and How to Make a Star
Auteur
Tom Clynes
Éditeur
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Année de publication
2015
État de l'article
Fair
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Hardback
Langue
anglais
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0544085116
ISBN à 13 chiffres
9780544085114

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