The boysout and the smoke detector nuclear experiment is one of those really amazing and interesting stories.
Geeze, I wanted to look up him, thinking he'd have gotten an engineering scholarship or something. Looks like he served in the military, but afterwards he got addicted to drugs and died in his late 30s. ... .. Geeze that's fucking tragic.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19195087
Not nearly as interesting as the radioactive boyscout story:
https://harpers.org/archive/1998/11/the-radioactive-boy-scou...
David Hahn sadly passed away at 39:
https://arstechnica.com/science/2016/11/this-fall-the-radioa...