Taylor Wilson

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 Texarkana-born kid was quietly building a working nuclear fusion reactor 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.

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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)

Origin

Texarkana, United States

Occupation

engineer / nuclear physicist / child prodigy

Zodiac / Chinese zodiac

Taurus / Dog

University

University of Nevada, Reno

Awards & achievements

• Thiel Fellowship

• Official sitehttps://sciradioactive.com/Taylors_Nuke_Site/Welcome.html
• Xhttps://x.com/Taylor_wilson
• Wikipedia (English)https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Taylor%20Wilson
• Wikipedia (Japanese)https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%83%86%E3%82%A4%E3%83%A9%E3%83%BC%E3%83%BB%E3%82%A6%E3%82%A3%E3%83%AB%E3%82%BD%E3%83%B3
• Wikidatahttps://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1421302

Tags

• engineer
• nuclear physicist
• child prodigy

Last updated

October 18, 2026

Only publicly available facts are listed; non-public or unconfirmed items are omitted. Base data was compiled from Wikidata from June 2026 onward; ages are recalculated daily and deaths are checked against Wikidata on an ongoing basis. English text is machine-assisted (facts translated by Sonnet, "My Take" written by Opus 4.8). The Japanese page is the source of record.