also win a $100,000 surprise in support of billionaire investor peter thiel, one of these exceptionally talented teenager was taylor wilsonest person in history to create nuclear fusion. >> it's not enough for me to figure out the questions of the universe. it's solving the problems that we face and i've become really good at it. >> my mom passed away of cancer, and that's when he really got interested in, you know, he said he was going to find a cure for cancer someday. >> this represents a system that, for less than $100,000, something you can wheel in the hospital room replaces multimillion-dollar warehouse sized facilities and these produce the isotopes used to treat or diagnose cancer. if you're teaching graduate students why are you going to college? i'm a social person so college is something i haven't completely written off. >> i think college was always a big goal of his. he had some picked out and wanted to go but at some point in the last couple years tyler evolved above that. >> taylor wilson looks like a young steve jobs almost. >> or bill gates. >> nuclear physicist, and oh, now a thiel fellow as well, joins