* Astronomy

At age 7, he'd memorised every rocket made by the U.S. and Soviet governments from the 1930s onward. But of all of Wilson's obsessions, radioactivity stuck.
At age 11 Taylor was mining for uranium with his dad in the New Mexico desert, and was buying vials of plutonium off the Internet. At age 14, Wilson became the youngest person in the world to build a nuclear fusion reactor...
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