14 Facts About Taylor Wilson

Taylor Wilson was born on May 7,1994 and is an American nuclear physicist and science advocate.

Taylor Wilson has designed a compact radiation detector to enhance airport security.

Taylor Wilson was born in 1994 in Texarkana, Arkansas to Kenneth and Tiffany Wilson.

Taylor Wilson's father is the owner of a Coca-Cola bottling plant, and his mother was a yoga instructor.

Taylor Wilson was initially interested in rocketry and space science, before entering the field of nuclear science at age 10.

Taylor Wilson had a lot of support from his parents.

In 2017, Taylor Wilson was named a member of the Helena Group, a think tank focused on executing projects that improve the world.

In 2008, Wilson achieved nuclear fusion that generated a temperature forty times as hot as that of the sun using an inertial electrostatic confinement device, which was a variation of the fusor that was invented by Philo T Farnsworth in 1964.

In May 2011, Taylor Wilson entered his radiation detector in the Intel International Science and Engineering Fair in Los Angeles, California, against a field of 1,500 competitors and won a US$50,000 award.

Taylor Wilson stated he hopes to test and rapidly field the devices to US ports for counterterrorism purposes.

The US Department of Homeland Security and US Department of Energy offered federal funding to Taylor Wilson concerning research he has conducted in building inexpensive Cherenkov radiation detectors.

On February 27,2013, at TED 2013, Taylor Wilson presented his ideas on the benefits of building small underground nuclear fission reactors that are self-contained and use down-blended uranium and plutonium from decommissioned nuclear weapons as fuel.

Taylor Wilson is the subject of the biography The Boy Who Played with Fusion, by Tom Clynes, published in 2015, the movie rights to which have been optioned by 20th Century Fox.

Taylor Wilson appears in How the Universe Works fourth season in first episode.