My Take
Taylor Wilson is genuinely one of those people who makes you question what you were doing with your own teenage years, because while most of us were struggling through high school chemistry, this guy from Texarkana was quietly building a working nuclear fusion reactor in his garage at 14. That's not a metaphor — he actually achieved controlled nuclear fusion in 2008, making him one of the youngest people ever to do it. He went on to win the Thiel Fellowship, gave TED talks that left physicists nodding along, and has spent his career pushing for compact reactor technology and better radiation detection tools for national security. What gets me is that this never feels like a stunt — Wilson is the real deal, a kid who fell genuinely in love with nuclear physics and just refused to wait for a PhD before doing something remarkable with it.
Overview
Taylor Wilson (born May 7, 1994) is an American nuclear physicist and science advocate. Wilson achieved controlled nuclear fusion in 2008 when he was 14 years old. He has designed a compact radiation detector to enhance airport security. Wilson works to expand applications for nuclear medicine, and to design and develop modular power reactor technology.
1. Profile
- Name (English)
- Taylor Wilson
- Name (Japanese)
- テイラー・ウィルソン
- Reading
- ていらー・うぃるそん
- Born
- May 7, 1994 (age 32)
- Zodiac / Chinese zodiac
- Taurus / Dog
- Origin
- Texarkana, United States
- Blood type
- Private
- Height
- Private
- Agency
- Private
- Occupation
- engineer / nuclear physicist / child prodigy
2. Background
- Elementary school
- Private
- Junior high
- Private
- High school
- Private
- University
- University of Nevada, Reno
Awards & achievements
- Thiel Fellowship
3. Relationships
- Spouse
- Private
- Children
- Private
- Parents
- Private
- Siblings
- Private
4. Personality
Motto
Private
6. Links
7. About this entry
Tags
- Last updated
- 2026-06-02
Facts are limited to publicly available information up to 2024; non-public items are marked "Private / Unknown". English text is machine-assisted (facts translated by Sonnet, "My Take" written by Opus 4.8). The Japanese page is the source of record.