5 Child Geniuses So Remarkable They’ll Make Your Head Spin.

3. Taylor Ramon Wilson

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Birthplace: United States

Birthdate: May 7, 1994

IQ: 146 (estimated)

Accomplishments:

Taylor Ramon Wilson is the youngest person in the world to build a working fusor: a device designed to create nuclear fusion. He built a bomb at age 10 and the fusor at age 14. In May 2011, he won the Intel International Science and Engineering Fair for his radiation detector.

In February 2013, he spoke at the TED 2013 conference about his ideas on self-contained underground nuclear fission reactors.

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  Taylor designed a compact nuclear reactor that he said would generate 50 megawatts of power and would need to be refueled only once every 30 years.