The youngest person ever to achieve nuclear fusion, Jamie Edwards, is the latest speaker to be announced for TEDxSalford IV, the largest UK TEDx event which takes place on Sunday, 5th October at the Lowry, Media City in Manchester, UK.
At 13 years old, Jamie Edwards who describes himself as an amateur scientist became the youngest person ever to achieve nuclear fusion by colliding the nuclei of hydrogen atoms via inertial electrostatic confinement in his school laboratory.
Jamie, who had the support of his school, Penwortham Priory Academy near Preston, has his sights on building a miniature hadron collider for his next project and will be sharing his ideas with guests and speakers from technology, entertainment and design at TEDxSalford.
This year’s speaker line-up for the event also brings together the youngest Nobel peace prize winner, the founder of the World Toilet Organisation, the CEO of Hailo, Anonymous blogger ‘Belle de Jour’, a renowned teenage inventor, scientist and cancer researcher, a hacker and security expert, and journalist and author Lucy Hawking, daughter of Stephen Hawking.
Speakers are still being announced.
More information at www.TEDxSalford.com tickets from www.tedxsalford.com/event/registration
