The Boy Who Played with Fusion

This story of a child prodigy and his unique upbringing is “ an engrossing journey to the outer realms of science and parenting” (Paul Greenberg, author of Four Fish ).   A PEN/E. O. Wilson Literary Science Writing Award Finalist   Like many young children, Taylor Wilson dreamed of becoming an astronaut. Only Wilson mastered the science of rocket propulsion by the age of nine. When he was eleven, he tried to cure his grandmother’s cancer—and discovered new ways to produce medical isoto