LEADER 00000cam  2200601Mi 4500 
001    ocn951964802 
003    OCoLC 
008    160616t20162015mauaf    b    001 0deng   
020    9780544705029 
020    0544705025 
041    eng 
082 04 539.7/64092|aB|223 
092 0  539 Clynes|bengelska 
100 1  Clynes, Tom,|eauthor 
245 14 The boy who played with fusion :|bextreme science, extreme
       parenting, and how to make a star /|cTom Clynes 
250    First Mariner Books edition 
264  1 Boston|bHoughton Mifflin Harcourt,|c2016 
264  4 |c©2015 
300    xv, 303 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates :
       |billustrations ;|c21 cm 
336    text|btxt|2rdacontent 
337    unmediated|bn|2rdamedia 
338    volume|bnc|2rdacarrier 
500    "An Eamon Dolan book." 
504    Includes bibliographical references and index 
505 0  The digger -- The pre-nuclear family -- Propulsion! -- 
       Space camp -- The "responsible" radioactive boy scout -- 
       The cookie jar -- In the (glowing) footsteps of giants -- 
       Alpha, beta, gamma -- Trust but verify -- Extreme 
       parenting -- Accelerating toward big science -- Heavy 
       water -- Bright as the sun -- Bringing the sun down to 
       earth -- The roots of prodigiousness -- The lucky donkey 
       theory -- Twice as nice, half as good -- Atomic travel -- 
       Champions for the gifted -- A Hogwarts for geniuses -- A 
       fourth state of grape -- Heavy metal apron -- Birth of a 
       star -- The neutron club -- A field of dreams, an epiphany
       in a box -- The father of all bombs -- We're just 
       breathing your air -- The superbowl of science -- Scotch 
       tape 
520    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 eleven, his grandmother's cancer diagnosis 
       drove 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? 
       Here, science journalist Tom Clynes narrates Taylor 
       Wilson'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 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.--From publisher description 
600 17 Wilson, Taylor,|d1994-|2fast 
650  0 Gifted boys|zUnited States|vBiography 
650  7 Fusion reactors.|2fast 
650  7 Gifted boys.|2fast 
650  7 Nuclear fusion.|2fast 
650  7 Begåvade barn|2sao 
650  7 Fusion (kärnfysik)|2sao 
650  7 Kärnreaktioner|2sao 
651  4 Förenta staterna 
651  7 United States 
655  7 Biography.|2fast 
655  7 Biografi|2saogf 
907 00 190325